Daily Verse
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Freedom in Christ
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Tuesday's Reflection
Romans 6:6-7 — Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Paul uses the language of slavery deliberately, because that is exactly what sin is. We talk about our bad habits as if they were choices we could drop anytime we liked. But anyone who has tried and failed to stop something they hate knows the truth — sin is not a habit we keep, it is a master that keeps us. Paul says we were slaves to it. Not occasional visitors to it, but owned by it, unable to walk away no matter how badly we wanted to. That is the human condition apart from Christ, and pretending otherwise is part of how the slavery holds.
But then Paul says something that changes everything. Our old self — the person we used to be, the one owned by sin — was crucified with Christ. When Jesus died, that old slave died with Him. And "he that is dead is freed from sin." A dead man owes nothing to his old master. The chains that bound the old self have no claim on the new person raised up in Christ. This is not behaviour modification or trying harder. It is a change of ownership. We have been transferred out of one kingdom and into another, out from under one master and into the service of another.
The freedom Paul describes is not freedom to do nothing — it is freedom to serve a better Master. We were never going to be free in the sense of having no master at all; that was never on offer. The choice was always which master would own us. Sin pays its servants in guilt, emptiness, and death. Christ gives His servants life, peace, and a future. To be freed from sin is not to be left masterless and adrift. It is to be brought home to the One whose service is perfect freedom.
Prayer: Lord, thank You that our old self was crucified with Christ and that sin no longer owns us. Help us to live as people who have changed masters — free from the old slavery, glad to serve the One who gave us life. Amen.