Feel as if your life is chained to an immovable object? Weighed down by fear or anxiety? There is a good chance that sin is holding you down and paralyzing your life. If your image of God is that of a punishing father putting harsh limitations onto your life, then read the Bible and re-think that image. Allow the Holy Scriptures to re-cast your original assumptions. If you read and study the Bible as the Word is presented, you will find a loving God who sets you free from fear, anxiety and sin. If you feel you are in prison, that is because your very own sin has incarcerated you, not God. Recall Galations 6:7 “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” If we are reaping bondage, its our very own sinful actions that have enslaved us. The true God frees us. Look at Pslam 142: 7, “you will deal bountifully with me.” God is exponentially generous and loving. The love of God and his business with us is marked by abundance and magnamity. Please do not take my words at face value; instead put your faith in the Word of God and read Matthew 20:1-16, “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius[for the day and sent them into his vineyard. About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went. He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’ “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’ “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’ “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
How Does God Deal With You?
