Servant...Set Free

For those that know me or have seen me in the past year, know that I have a few tattoos. For those that did not know this, I have a tattoo in Greek on both forearms and a variation of a cross on my right shoulder. Teaching in a public high school I am constantly asked what they mean and why I have them. The ones that people most often ask about the ones on my forearms, as these are the most visible. Two words in Greek, δούλος and έλευθερόω. The first means “servant/bond-servant/slave” and the second means “set free/set from the dominion of sin.” Most that ask about the meaning of these even further, usually question I would tattoo slave/servant on my arm and what is the significance of being set free. I have the pleasure of working in a public high school and when students ask, I’m allowed to answer which is awesome because through these tattoos I am able to share the Gospel of Christ and what He has done in my life with these students. I am a servant of Christ, a bond-servant, bought with the price of Jesus’ blood on a cross. Since he died and paid for me, I owe him everything! Not only did he pay the price and the debt that I owed to God because of my sin, he also set me free. He set me free from the bondage of my sin. I no longer have the burden of sinful punishment on my shoulders; he set me free from that. Not only did he set me free from this, he also set me free unto serving him. He paid the price/my debt and set me free from sin so that I would be free to serve and worship the one and only Yaweh (LORD). That is why I am his servant. He has forgiven me, when bled and died and tore the veil in the temple, he set me free. Have you been set free to serve the one true God?