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Titus 3:3-5

At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

There is one solution to everything we feel bound by. And it was not anything we did.

Did you know a slave has no rights? A slave, no matter how strong-willed or determined, can not break his bondage to his master.

Yet to those – and even to ourselves - enslaved to addictions, wrong ways of thinking and bad habits we so often preach that people are their own keys to freedom.

I’m looking forward to this year being brilliantly free! Not because of anything I do but because God’s love is always in front of me. I’m making sure that what Jesus did, not what I could do, is what appears before me when I want to make a change.

The love of God, the gift of Jesus, sets me free.

Prayer for the week: Father, your love comes right when I need it. It sets me free whenever I feel bound. Jesus, I come alive when I’m with you. I ask for your grace to abound over me.