© 2013 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

Have you ever wished life was simpler? As birds soar in the sky, do you wonder what it would be like to have no rules, no deadlines, and no concerns for tomorrow’s plans? Jesus spoke of this in Matthew 6:26. “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”

Originally, Adam and Eve lived like this. They, as the birds, were given pleasant work tending the Garden of Eden which God had planted for them. There they lived joyfully, with no deadlines and no apparent concerns regarding tomorrow. They served their Master of Freedom who had created them as a picture of Himself.

Then, everything changed. The Devil despised Adam and Eve because they reminded him of God. He successfully lured them into disobeying God. Thus, he became their new and evil master. The entire human race was plunged so deeply into his heinous bondage that Jesus eventually told the religious leaders of Jerusalem, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it (John 8:44).”

That is why Jesus, who is God the Son, came to deliver His people from their sin. He said, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep (John 10:10-12).” Christ’s apostle, John, wrote, “…as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God… (John 1:11-12).”

Is the Devil still your father, or have you repented of your sin and asked God the Son to unite you to His Father who cares for you more than “the fowls of the air?”

 

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