more than likely this will end up being a place that i can word vomit about everything that i'm learning right now. (i'm taking a class on the book of Romans that is totally handing it to me. and i love it.)
my mom and dad are coming here tomorrow to spend my birthday with me, and i'm so excited about that!
here's a quote from my most recent project on Romans to leave you with:
"Without taking anything away from the reality of the transfer from one master to another, then, Paul wants to make clear that “slavery” is ultimately not just a “legal” status but a living experience. Christians who are no longer slaves of sin, must no longer live as slaves of sin… Either one is a slave of sin or a slave of “obedience.” Paul makes it clear in this “either…or” that there is no “possibility of neutrality.” (Moo, pgs. 398-399)
Romans 6:23 is a verse that I have had memorized probably since grade school; but I can honestly say that until this study I had absolutely no true grasp of it’s significance and it’s relation to the slavery analogy that Paul presents earlier in this chapter. I had never thought about the idea of being a “slave” to a new master either. These verses have rocked me and my heart in a good way, I am re-evaluating my sinful nature, and seeking to serve my true master with the promise of eternal life lingering in my heart! It seems that every day I am “confounded by the shame for my own wretchedness…” I have no problems in that area. But in that, I allow guilt to rule my actions and thoughts, which is not serving Jesus and the sacrifice he has made for me, in order that I might be free from that lifestyle of guilt and shame.
