Once upon a time, in the United States, we employed people to be sharecroppers. The land owners who owned the land in slavery, still owned the land after slavery. They employed the ex-slave to work the land and the profits were split between the owner and the ex-slave. It sounded nice, but at the end of the day, the slave was so much in debt with the owner, that they never rose above it. They just exchanged one set of chains for another set of chains. When I became a Christian, I was snatched out of darkness and into the marvelous light. The day after I became a Christian, some well meaning church mother gave me a list of things that I could not do in order to remain saved. I went from one prison to another prison. I was bound in sin and then I was bound in legalism. The rough thing about legalism is the mind control that it has over you. I forfeited some of my God given rights because I was working for my salvation. I remember saints who never took a vacation, did not know how to attend a wedding, had never worn a pair of pants. They were misfits and grinning idiots. One day, I realized that Christ had set me free, but I was not free indeed. Now, I am free indeed.
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