so this morning I am sleeping and thinking in my sleep about this movie I watched a few weeks ago called Queen.. it was about a slave that was born to a slave and the owner... when emancipation came.. she wouldn't leave the plantation... she said it was her home... she said this is where her mother and father and grandparents were all living and buried and she didn't want to leave and she knew nothing else... where would she go? in the end they forced her to leave...

 

as I was thinking of this I realized.. or had the revelation.. if she had never left that plantation... she would have never been free really... she would have continued to serve them as a slave.. not as a freed woman.. she would not have received wages more than likely... she would have continued to remain a slave in her mind...

 

1 Corinthians 9: ¹⁹ Even though I am a free man with no master, I have become a slave to all people to bring many to Christ. ²⁰ When I was with the Jews, I lived like a Jew to bring the Jews to Christ. When I was with those who follow the Jewish law, I too lived under that law. Even though I am not subject to the law, I did this so I could bring to Christ those who are under the law.

 

I wonder how often we start out as a slave to Christ.. and end up being a slave to pleasing self or man... how often does our motive stop being about God and become all about us or about someone else? pretty often I am thinking...

 

our mind is our battlefield.. the best thing we can do to fight this battle is to keep our minds on Christ and not on what we think or want or feel..