The slave of God (Part 4)
If it is today that you just started this teaching, the inspiration comes from the letter that Paul wrote to the Romans when he said: “For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life"(Romans 6: 20-22).
It is important to understand that if you are the slave of God, you are no longer a slave of sin. In other words, sin is no longer your master because you have changed masters. God has become your Master and you totally depend on Him and Him alone. It is an honor and privilege to become a child of God but as long as we do not become his slaves, it will be difficult for us to resist the sinful nature. A good slave always wants to please his master and everything he does must conform to his will. That is why Jesus taught to pray by asking that God's will be done on earth as it is already done in heaven (Matthew 6: 10).
If you read the second part of this teaching, you will definitely understand that he who plants and he who waters are nothing but it is rather the one that makes grown that has value (1 Corinthians 3: 3-9). It is God who gives the growth and He deserves all the glory and all the honor. The reason why we deserve no glory in what God is doing through us is the fact that everything was completed before we were born. If today you do wonderful things that impress everyone, it is because God has put a gift in you and it is through that gift that He does the work that He prepared and planned even before your grandparents were born. The Bible says in Ephesians 2: 10 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them”. We are here to put into practice the plan that God has already designed.
Here is what God told the prophet Jeremiah: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations " (Jeremiah 1: 5). God knew you before you were conceived and formed in the womb of your mother and He had seen you before you were born. This means that each of us already has a biography written by God before birth. Normally biography is written based on the past but God wrote your biography based on your future before you were born. The reason why we encounter many obstacles and oppositions is because we do not walk in the biography that is already written by God.
If you do not believe that your biography was already written before you were born, do not miss the last part of this teaching i.e. the fifth part
Chris Ndikumana
