Daily Devotions
Why Your Non-Christian Friends Feel Sorry For You
Reading for November 3rd: John 7-8
"Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin."
John 8: 34
Did you know a lot of your non-Christian friends feel sorry for you?
That's right. They feel sorry for you because you don't have any fun. You don't even know how to have fun. You follow a bunch of rules. You've surrendered your freedom. You have no life.
What they don't realize is that the "freedom" you have surrendered is not all it's cracked up to be. To be completely "free" (as they would define it) is to be the worst kind of slave. They are slaves to their desires.
In Proverbs, this kind of "freedom" is called foolishness. The fool is untethered by a fear of the Lord, but lives by his own heart (Proverbs 1:7; 3:5-6). This life of freedom leads to much suffering (Proverbs 1:20-33).
The fool has no idea why he is suffering. “The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble." (Proverbs 4:19) The fool is blind and lost. He goes farther and father into darkness because of his stubborn refusal to listen to God. He is a slave serving the most cruel of masters: SIN!
There is a way out of this. Jesus said, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John 8:31-32)
Hear the Lord’s call! Come out of the darkness! Come into the light! Come to Jesus!
”But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day." (4:18)
Father, thank you for not leaving us to ourselves! Thank you for the truth which sets us free! Help us to share that freedom with all those who still walk in darkness.
