June 15

Thou hast loosed my bonds.—Psalms 116:16.

HAVE I, by the grace of God in Christ Jesus, been freed from the bondage of sin? And do I rejoice, with thankfulness, in the liberty of God's children? Do I feel that I am free not only from the condemnation, but from the reigning power of sin? And do I so prize the blessedness of my state as a new creature in Christ Jesus, that I seek to lead others to the same blessedness?

He who has received the spirit of adoption, no longer acts as a slave who regards his duties as a burden and endeavors to lessen them. On the contrary, he delights in duty, because he delights in God. He is at home with God his Father, and as it were conversing with him while engaged in his service.—MILNOR.

The Christian is free from the charge of sin, because Christ was his substitute; free from its guilt and condemnation, through faith in the person and work of Jesus; free from the love and power and slavery of sin, through the influence of the Holy Spirit. Blessed freedom, that delivers from all the evil of sin, and raises to a life of holiness and to heaven. *

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside.—COWPER.

Ignorance bound me; Satan tossed me: But Jesus found me, and Satan lost me.

—BUNYAN.