Bible Verse of the Day Saturday January 16th 2021

Romans 6:14 Sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. 

When we visit a zoo, we sometimes see a large cage with an eagle perched on a tree limb as high up in the cage as they can find. This magnificent bird's incarceration is a sad site because God meant for the Eagle to fly at great heights and to soar among the clouds. God did not mean for that great bird to be a prisoner in a cage.

Many today profess to be Children of God, followers, and disciples of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus are similar to those caged Eagles. God created them to live their lives with the freedom from being a surrendered follower of Jesus, yet because of the sin in their lives, they become Satan’s prisoners. This self-captivity undoubtedly must cause the heart of God to break. He knows what He created His children to be, and they have condemned themselves to a cage. The saddest part of this is that the cell they have chosen for themselves has a door that remains open (2 Timothy 2:11).

The apostle Paul wrote these words to Timothy to help his young protege in his ministry and be passed along to all of us down through the years, so we would know how to attain the freedom God created for us to experience. We die of our old selves and become alive and free through Christ Jesus. We no longer have to settle for Satan's cage because the open door to that cage is our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus. 

The beauty of this is that through Christ, we are free and no longer prisoners of the old life we used to know. God did not create us to live our lives in a cage; God meant for us to soar among the clouds (Isaiah 42:7).

The Prophet Isaiah, in one of his numerous Messianic prophecies, tells us one of the many things that Christ Jesus has done for us. In his earthly ministry, Jesus opened the eyes of some blind people so that they could see. Today He is still opening the eyes of the spiritually blind so that they might know the truth. In this verse of scripture above from Isaiah's writings, we learn that Christ Jesus does not want us to linger in the prison of Satan; He wants to free us from any bonds that Satan may have on us. He is the light for all of those that sit in the darkness of some dungeon. 

Many aspects of our lives can cause us to be trapped and become prisoners of one of these dungeons. Satan will set snares for us that will cause us to yearn for times past, whether we see those times as good or bad. Either one of these will keep us locked in the cage of Satan. Christ Jesus wants to set us free so that we might soar among the clouds, as the eagles do (Isaiah 40:31).  

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