"But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.”
We are always a slave to something in life, like the ego or our own insecurities while we train. But what if we are slaves to righteousness and to God?
Slavery does not have to have such a bad connotation, it is all about what we are bound to and what the circumstances of our slavery are.
Are we to sin because we are under grace? Can we just do whatever we want?
Of course not! This is a trap! Accepting Christ does not give us a free pass to sin. Think of your workout schedule, three days on, one “cheat” day, and then three days on, repeat. Just because we have “worked hard” doesn’t necessarily mean we “deserve” to just not follow the rules for a day.
So how do we embody humility and remain obedient to God in training?
Discipline is key! We force arbitrary rules of discipline on ourselves and then fall away from them, but when God imposes rules of discipline we are called to keep them and they are meaningful because God gave them to us as commandments (i.e. treating our bodies as a temple).
When our rules of discipline are not just for ourselves but as sacrifices to God, they become non-arbitrary because they are spiritual disciplines as much as physical disciplines.
“13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.”
By iron, through iron, to iron. Laudate!
God Bless,
Samuel Newcamp
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