Recently I had a conversation with someone about being “bound up”. Of course on the face of it, it refers to a hopefully transient medical problem that is rectified by correct eating habits, adequate water, and possibly more fibre. I have discovered that as I get older, I don’t eat as much food. ANY sort of food. Therefore things can get a bit sluggish at times. I take a daily dose of psyllium husks to rectify things. I also discovered that this had to be introduced to the system slowly, or you would suffer the reverse of being bound up and take up residence in the bathroom!
But the correct amount works wonders, and things work like clockwork. Or at least regularly. I’d hardly call anything in my wearing out system working like clockwork!
But this leads me to the spiritual aspects of being “bound up”.
We are all, till we turn to Christ, bound up in sin. In fact, we are imprisoned, and the wages of sin is death. Acts 8: 23 says: For I see that you are in the gallc of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”
Isn’t it just as well that we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 1 John 2:1. Even though we are well and truly bound up in our sin, there is a way out. We have not only hope, but a remedy. Our chains are gone, we’ve been set free, once we turn to Christ.
But there are also people who believe they are serving God, who are “bound up”. They are bound up in a false belief system, by rules and regulations that Christ never imposed on them. By a system that keeps them prisoner, by keeping the truth from them, and imposing a false truth on them. By insisting their deeds can stop God loving them, can keep them from heaven, by refusing the saving blood of Jesus as salvific, and insufficient to save them.
These people too, can be liberated. They too can shed the chains of iniquity and false belief. They too are welcomed by the Father, when they finally understand the sacrifice of the Son, and that their false beliefs are really just barriers to their freedom in the marvellous Light.
Pray with me that all people everywhere, trapped by sin, trapped by false belief will finally listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit as He woos them to freedom in Christ. That they will rejoice in the freedom of Christ, that they will love the simplicity of the Gospel and then be able to joyfully pass the Good News to others.
That they will finally…be free indeed!
Light of Christ 