~From the Torah we read, I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians (Exod. 6:6). The sages say the Hebrew word for burdens (סִבְלת) can also be read as passivity (סְבִילוּת): I will deliver you from passivity toward your slavery.... So long as the people regarded their enslavement as tolerable, they could excuse it, rationalize it, and even defend it. Therefore God allowed tribulation to progressively increase so that the people would understand their need. Likewise we cannot even begin to understand our need for deliverance as long as we are comfortable, numb, and dead inside... The first step toward moral freedom, then, is to be set free from our denial, to wake up, to resist evil, and to find faith that God desires something better for our lives. The worst kind of slavery is to be unaware that you are, indeed, in bondage... Hebrew for Christians
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 02:33:22 +0000
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