Like the cross, slavery is both paradigm and paradox. The cross, the most excruciating and pervasive symbol of suffering and death in the first century, has come to represent for the followers of Jesus the only way to peace and life. In the same sense slavery, which represents the total denial of freedom, becomes for the followers of Christ, the Servant Savior, the only means to the realization of the true freedom. . . . [Jesus] came in the form of a slave, not to offer us freedom from slavery but a new kind of slavery that is freedom.
—Michael Card, quoted in John MacArthur, Slave (Thomas Nelson, 2010), 197–198.
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#1 || 11·07·22··07:01 || donsands
That is excellent. I want to a better slave for my loving Master. He is everything, everything in good times and bad. Having a bit of a bad time of it right now. Like to ask you for prayer, if that's alright. I know the Lord will hear you David.