Enjoying Slavery

Enjoying Slavery

From my personal outlook, SG is not too far from Ancient Egypt.

Many are living in slavery without realising it. What is happening in the spiritual realm also affects the physical realm. 

Comparing to other Asian countries, many elderly in SG experience feeble feet and bent back. We tend to relegate this phenomenon to old age. However, when I was in Japan, Korea and some other countries, I observed that the elderly have reasonably strong feet and straight back. They could walk without much support. 

One of the signs of being enslaved/oppressed is being feeble.

We can be so used to a “slavery” culture that we don’t see anything wrong with it. It becomes a stronghold in the mindset. If we are challenged to get out of this ‘comfort’ zone, we find it difficult to resist going back to that slavery, just like the Israelites in Egypt.

Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” And they said to one another, “Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt.” - Num 14:3-4

Freedom seems to be scary. It requires courage and faith. It sometimes involves the unknown. The Israelites did not comprehend it. Their sight was too short. They focused on the immediate and temporal. They were so used to slavery that they actually preferred that to true freedom. Freedom came at a cost that they were not willing to pay. They thought that it was better to live in Egypt.

Analogous to that, many of us are enslaved without realising it. We think that we are experiencing freedom by following the majority. The ability to go to places freely is misinterpreted as freedom. True freedom is from within (Gal 5:1). The inability to say No and have choices is slavery. True freedom is the ability to decide if it’s a “Yes” or “No.”

The physical health (feeble) of our elderly is a reflection of the spiritual climate in our nation. Bent back and weak legs are a sign of being enslaved.

There is no point crying out to God like the Israelites in Egypt if we choose to go back to Egypt. Complaining and murmuring yet choosing Egypt is not courage or faith. It is in fact, cowardly.

At the end of the day, we cannot blame others or the leadership if we are the ones choosing to enjoy slavery. It’s time to take responsibility and stop saying that “I have no choice”.

Saying “I have no choice” simply means “I refuse to pay a price for freedom. I don’t want to. I prefer to stay in the comfort zone of slavery.”