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Slave ships of old were horrific torture chambers.
So were the rail cars that transported Europe’s doomed Jews.
The end was bad enough, but the humanity carried inside those boxes of heat, disease, and physical depravity suffered beyond what any person should.
They needed a rescuer, a patron of the human condition, one who would release them from their chains and set them free.
Psalm 35:10 sends up a plaintive cry:
“All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him, yes, the poor and the needy from him who spoils him?”
Sin is a harsh master that locks us away in a dark place. The disease of depravity slowly invades us, until we suffer beyond what we ever thought possible.
Sadly, our forebears who rode those slave ships or were locked in those rail cars were rarely rescued. They were delivered into living death or horrific decimation. They were given no hope to ease their suffering.
We have spiritual hope in our Lord. He died on the cross to deliver the spiritually poor and those whose souls are in need from the oppression of slavery. He came to break the locks and release us from our chains. He came to bring us salvation through his sacrifice on that tree. He came to set the spiritual prisoner free.
When the world has us trapped, we can find our freedom through the saving grace of Christ the King.
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