"So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir." - Galatians 4:7
In 1841, a young Abraham Lincoln went to a slave auction one day and was appalled at what he saw. He spotted a young woman on the auction block. The bidding began, and Lincoln bid until he purchased her for $150. After he paid the auctioneer, he walked over to the woman, who was Nance Legins-Costley, and said, “You’re free.”
“Free? What is that supposed to mean?” Nance asked.
“It means you are free,” Lincoln answered, “completely free!”
“Does it mean I can do whatever I want to do?”
“Yes,” Abe said, “free to do whatever you want to do.”
“Free to say whatever I want to say?”
“Yes, free to say whatever you want to say.”
“Does freedom mean,” she asked with hope and hesitation, “that I can go wherever I want to go?”
“It means exactly that, you can go wherever you want to go,” Abe answered.
With tears of joy and gratitude welling up in her eyes, Nance said, “Then, I think I’ll go with you.”
We were all once slaves to sin but now freed by our Heavenly Father who has adopted us as His son. Today in prayer, praise the Lord that He has made you His child.
"Formerly slaves, Christians, are now both sons and heirs." – James Montgomery Boice
God's Word: "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will" - Ephesians 1:4-5
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