Cowbody Take Me Away!

Cowboy Take Me Away!

"Cowboy take me away fly this girl as high as you can into the wild blue

Set me free, oh I pray, closer to heaven above and closer to you....

Closer to you...."  Dixie Chicks Lyrics

It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1 (God's Word Translation)

We now understand that freedom is the ability to not be bound, to have made it out of our turbulence so that we CAN help another person. I want us to be sure we understand what we are actually free “from”. What does He mean when he says “do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery” ?
2 Corinthians 3:17,18 states:

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

 

To understand what the true meaning of this statement was we have to look at two Greek works that this is derived from:

Duleiua – meaning servitude, dependence, the state of Doulos (defined below), servant. To be in the position of a servant and act accordingly, to be subject and serve in subjection, bondage, used of actions which are directed by others. Reduced to bondage under someone, deprived of freedom, to be under the law. Metaphorically, to be a slave to, such as to pleasures.

Doulos – means a slave, one who is in a permanent relation of servitude to another, his will altogether comsumed in the will of the other, to bind.

When God tells us that we are His bond slave, the meaning is that of a freed slave that chooses to stay with his master because he is treated so well, yet at anytime the slave is free to go.

Is there some one or some thing in your life that you have no freedom to be who God desires you to be?

God I pray that you show us with unveiled faces where we allow ourselves to serve another master; where we have unintentionally put a God in your place. We know that the Lord is the Spirit and your spirit searches the depths of all things even you. Forgive us, restore us. We ask to see clearly and to allow all that you are to transform us, step by step into the same image; from glory to glory till we radiate as does the Lord. Let us permeate His glory into this place.

In Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Candace

We don't need a cowboy we have a Sheppard and it is done;so fly!