Dear Slaves,

Recently, an involved leader of our little grace campus community sent an email to many other leaders telling of what God had put on her heart. The truth contained in the email cut straight to the heart and was overflowing with freedom. It was so freeing that it had be shared here for all the community to read. I hope you enjoy it. The following is the email we received from this passionate Christ follower. Dear Slaves, We are slaves of righteousness. WE ARE SLAVES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS! WE ARE SLAVES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!!! PLEASE Hear His word, His promise to you on this, which is the blanket over us - His children. "What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once committed your members a slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification." Romans 6:15-19 SO THAT IS WHO WE ARE... THAT IS WHY WE ARE FREE FROM SIN BUT NOT TO SIN. "When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things that you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:20-23 THAT IS WHY, ALONG WITH THE MIRACLE OF IT BEING OUR VERY IDENTITY, THAT WE LONG TO DO GOOD. WE ARE NOT ONLY SLAVES TO GOOD, BUT THE FRUIT THAT COMES FROM GOOD IS... GOOD... ETERNAL-LIFE-GOOD. THAT'S AS GOOD AS IT GETS! In Ecclesiastes 3, He tells us that He has put eternity into man's heart. SO THIS ETERNITY IS WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE ARE CALLED TO. THERE IS NO DENYING IT. IT IS BY DESIGN. SO... OF COURSE SATAN WILL TRY TO COME IN AND TWIST THIS AND DESTORT IT. AND THERE LIES THE MUNDANENESS INSTEAD OF THE EXTRAORDINARY, THE COMPLACENCY INSTEAD OF THE MOTIVATION, THE GUILT INSTEAD OF THE FREEDOM OF GENTLE CONVICTION. THIS IS NOT HIS DESIRE FOR US. HE HAS FREED US. ALL BECAUSE OF THE FULL EXTENT OF HIS LOVE, NAMELY JESUS. I claim His truth that His word does not return void, and that He is not the God of confusion. And I trust Him with the cultivation of this in each and every one of our spirits. Take heart in who He is and who we are in Him. REST.