This shows that the same God, Who gave men the gift of freedom can also, under sufficient provocation revoke it (cf. The lesson we have also learnt here is that men are in bondage, when they transfer their trust to some false god, which having demanded their freedom as collateral, promptly forecloses it. The good news is that ‘where false gods enslave men, the mark of the true God is to liberate‘(Isaiah 61:1). The “Ministry of Reconciliation” is a beseeching of men to be reconciled to God (2 Cor. It is only those who are no more in bondage, those who experience freedom that can enter into the ministry of reconciliation.

Source: The Guardian February 24, 2019 02:37 UTC