Bondage

To have people look into their souls and turn around their deeds of woe.

To make amends with things of the past.

To turn to God and for his help to ask.

These things may seem difficult to some, but not to me because God has become my best friend over the years.

My early life brought me pain, sorrow, and tears, but in this time of utter distress I turned to God and found rest.

I found a place where I could go, where I wouldn’t be judged based on the fashion of my clothes, or what hair do I had that day, or even the sickness that tried to take my life away.

None of these things did God judge me on, though humans had high standards for me.

Standards I couldn’t understand or see, standards I couldn’t measure up to, so I found I had to leave.

But God has been my strong rock of faith and rest. Though the others mocked and said I couldn’t have God in my new life away from their nest of vipers and lies.

But early on in life I promised God that in a moment of fright to let me live that night and to see daylight, and if he did, I promised I would be good.

Since then a goodness has become me. Even when I’m bad I feel guilty. Even though some others would disagree.

They say I’m bad because I choose not to follow their rules. Their rules, manmade sanitations that no one could follow.

Only the vipers’ prey upon the mice, only the snake sees with his rotten eye.

So God through his mighty wisdom showed me greater things then these.

And in dreams and visions he did let me see. A better world that I could live in and be happy.

A sadness left me when I left them; something fell off our lives since then.

Bondage is a strong word most don’t understand.

Bondage can be anything small or big. It can overcome your life.

It brings out the spirit of a man and crushes him down to size.

Is this the life you want to lead? Is this what God has called his children to be?

A people bound and not free? I think not, I know God died to set us free.

Freedom is easy to understand, it’s simple to get, just hold out your hand.

Learn to grab onto God’s grace and goodness.

And learn to turn and walk away from a nest of vipers and their lies.

Learn to stand strong in Christ, hold your head up high.

Man doesn’t set rules not in the word of God.

Man doesn’t add to or take away from the word of God.

God is the potter and we are the clay.

What will you choose today?

To live bound or to live free?

My choice is made, how about thee?