Contemplative Bible Reading

1 Peter 2:16 (New Living Translation)

For you are free, yet you are God’s slaves, so don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil.

I am free. I am God’s slave.

Okay, must be something wrong with the translation here. How can I be both free and a slave at the same time?

I believe that we sometimes confuse words written a few thousand years ago with the same words that we use quite differently today. Maybe.

I am a slave to God in that God is my owner and master. God is the highest being there is in my life. There is none other who can compare. If God is my master, I am in a position like a slave or complete servant of God.

Since God is my owner and master, I am free from sin and death. Those things no longer rule or own me. Their power over my life has been removed. Consider that statement for a lifetime.

Please God, help me to be your slave. Thank you that I am no longer a slave to sin and death. Help me to understand and live the difference.