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Cross Words: First Name Basis
Slavery has left a dark smudge on the pages of America’s history books.  Men and women were bought and sold; their earthly fate and physical well-being in the hands of others.  For money and prestige they were abused and exploited.  Their freedoms were stripped and their rights became non-existent.
A form of slavery continues to this very day, but this type bypasses all racial and economical barriers.  It may not involve iron bars or steel chains but it imprisons nonetheless. It determines who we see, it directs where we go, and it dictates our emotions.  It is sin. And every one of us, believer and non, are affected and enslaved by it.
It comes disguised as greed, jealousy, envy amd anger. It shows itself through addictions and immoralities, but it’s all the same thing.  It wreaks havoc on our bodies, incarcerates our minds and ensnares our souls.  We avoid certain people, find ourselves in places we ought not, and experience a destructive range of feelings, all because we have allowed it’s claws to get a deep hold in our lives.
There is a way out though.  Galatians 5:1 states, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.”  By way of a relationship with Jesus Christ, and by the power of the Holy Spirit which comes with that, we have been given a supernatural ability to unleash ourselves from everything that binds and destroys us.
Martin Luther King ended one of his many speeches with these words;  “Free at last.  Free at last.  Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”  While his remarks might not have been directed towards our slavery to sin, they are still applicable.  We have been set free!  The doors that once kept our souls in bondage have been unlocked.  We need only to realize that truth and walk out of those self-imposed prison cells for good.

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