Sixth Day of Lent - Salvation from Slavery

St Augustine in the Slave Market in Rome.

 
The concept of slavery is abhorrent.  Yet humans seem to be doing this to each other for thousands of years.  Even today many people are restricted, controlled and lack access to justice.  How could a county like Britain condone and justify slavery?  It is an irony that the myth of England goes that it was in seeing slaves from Angle-land that St Augustine's heart was softened and this persuaded him to send missionaries to our God-forsaken cold damp corner of Western Europe. 

The story of the bible is one of 'being lead out of slavery'.  There is physical slavery, and there is spiritual slavery.  Which is more significant?  Jesus understood this and compared it to bread and water.  There is bread you will eat, and you will then be hungry again.  There is water that will refresh you, but only for a time.  There is spiritual bread, and water, that will fill you forever.  This is what we really need. Then all things are possible.

3 Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery, because the Lord brought you out of it with a mighty hand. Eat nothing containing yeast. 4 Today, in the month of Aviv, you are leaving. 5 When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey Exodus 13

PRAYER:  You have set me free, and all freedom emanates from this.  Thank you.