I was talking with a friend some weeks ago about how sometimes non-Christians seem to have a really easier life than Christians, how it seems that we struggle a lot more to get passed the day, how we see to make a big deal of everything while our non believers friends just go on each day as if living was the easiest thing to do, no worries, partying every day, always surrounded by nice people, no money problems, get everything they want.Well, it seems so, but in the same conversation I got the answer, and then this answer is kind of following me for some weeks. They may seem happier and they may seem to take life easier, but they are slaves, slaves of the money, of the parties, of the alcohol that keeps them smiling all the time, of the sex that a lot of times is the reason why they go after meeting people, slaves of the people they are surrounded by all the time. Because if you take that away from them, they have nothing left, they have no reason to live, they have no truth in their lives, everything they build is fragile and may go away in just one second, as everything in life. Everything but the Truth.
Knowing the truth is like being rescued from the Matrix (yes, I'm really talking about the movie), when you're living in the Matrix everything looks perfect, you may have some problems, but they are easily solved, and life goes on with no harm to your emotions, but it's not you that is really living your life, you're controlled by the Matrix, everything is fake, you're not your own. And then, when you get the pill that will make you know the truth, that will take you outside the Matrix, that's when the war begins, that's when everything start looking harder, that's when things start to look ugly, but that's when you're free, that's when you're your own.
When you're your own? But aren't we supposed to be God's? Well, yeah, I guess so, but it's different, because when we chose to be God's we are also our own, it's something we chose to do, and we are not slaves anymore, but servants, and as most as it may seem controversial, God's servants are the most free creatures in the world, because they are not only servants, but also children.
As for those who don't want to be set free, Psalm 73 has a really comforting explanation about what will happen to them, and specially a reminder that even when it seems that our life is harder then theirs, nothing is worth more than to be free in Jesus Christ, the only truth.
