Skiing Lessons…
I’ve never been a great skier, especially not cross-country skiing. No matter how hard I tried to control those thin skis, point them, move them, glide them, it always ended the same…me, face-down in the snow. But today I figured something out…submit to the skis. Today I finally submitted…and became slave to the ski. To be slave to the ski is to respond to them, follow them, let the glide lead you, feel what is happening under you…and respond with balance.
While I was on the trail today I was reminded of Ephesians 6 when Paul encourages the church at Ephesus and all other believers who would read these words to be “…slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart.”
“Being a slave to Christ may be the best possible way to define being Christian. We are, as believers, slaves of Christ. You would never suspect that, however, from the language of Christianity today. In contemporary Christianity the language is anything but slave language. It is about freedom. It is about liberation.” John MacArthur continues, “Personal fulfillment, personal liberation, personal satisfaction, all bound up in an old term evangelical Christianity, a personal relationship. How many times have we heard that the gospel offers people a personal relationship with Jesus Christ? What exactly does that mean? Satan has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and it’s not a very good one. Every living being has a personal relationship with the living God of one kind or another, leading to one end or another. But what exactly is our relationship to God? What is our relationship to Christ? How are we best to understand it? Being a slave to Christ may be the best way to define a Christian.”
Slave to Christ…responding to His leadership within us, sensing the subtle movements of God, and responding with obedience.
