I Will Not Go Free
”When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing… But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.” (Exodus 21:2, 5-6)
Christy Nockels wrote a song based on this Scripture, drawing a parallel between the Old Testament servant and a servant of Christ who loves his master so much he never wants to leave Him. This song really captured my heart. You can listen to it on Christy’s MySpace.
I love my Master, I will not go free
I take Your name and live in liberty
My life is Yours forever
I’ll serve You faithfully
I love my Master, I will not go free
There’s a reason we cannot leave the faith once we have truly embraced it. God binds our hearts to Himself. To leave Him would be unthinkable. How could we throw the pearl of great price in the mud? Left to ourselves, that’s all we would do. Yet He will not let us go free – He binds our wandering hearts.
Beautiful. I am glad to be the Lord’s bondslave.
I was talking with an athiest yesterday, who is sure, that at one time he was a true Christian. I tried to explain that if he had truly met God, he wouldn’t be able to deny his existence now.
All week I’ve been think about the part of Lamentations 3 that says, “this I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: Great is thy faithfulness…”
I recall these things to mind, and experience His mercies and faithfulness, “new every morning” and I can not doubt. “I will not go free.”
Thanks for this post. It was an encouragement to me this morning.
Thanks Anna! I knew she had a solo album coming out, but didn’t know it was out yet. I’ll check it out . . .
Thanks for the reminder Anna, I don’t know how people live believing that they could lose their salvation at any time.
If indeed we “are a new creation” and “the old has passed away and the new has come”, how can we “undo” our salvation? We can mar it, strain it, be unholy and unfaithful in part, but certainly not become backwardly transformed. Sad to live believing that the transformational work wrought by the Spirit could be reversed by the force of our will. To know Christ intellectually alone is to not know him.
“I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.” (Phil. 3:12)
This really touched me today as the Lord has been impressing upon my heart to truly become ALL His!! To not just give part of myself but ALL of myself and to be His bond slave. I have been a Christian for about 12 years now… and I can’t imagine a life without Jesus.