Read through the Bible in 2 Years: 1 Peter 2.
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
1 Peter 2:16 ESV
The Christian faith is full of impossibilities. One God in three persons. A man who is God. An omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient God.
Likewise, the Christian life is full of impossibilities. Walking by faith in a God you cannot see. Dying that you may live. And here, living as a free slave.
God is my master. He owns me. He bought me, not with temporary things like silver or gold, but with the most precious blood of the Lamb of God. (1 Peter 1:18-19)
Yet, He invites me to walk in the joy and power of freedom, with my head held high and the shackles of sin that once held me captive forever broken and cast into the sea.
Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty. I’m free at last!
Oh, but I’m still a slave, slave to the Most High, Most Holy Ruler of the Universe, slave to Almighty God who tells me to die to myself that I might live for Him.
I’ve tasted and seen that the Lord is Good, and I want to be His slave. I have willingly given my life to Him and again and again I say, “Take my life and let it be, consecrated, Lord, for Thee.”
Take my life and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee.
Take my moments and my days,
Let them flow in endless praise.
Take my hands and let them move
At the impulse of Thy love.
Take my feet and let them be
Swift and beautiful for Thee.
Take my voice and let me sing,
Always, only for my King.
Take my lips and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee.
Take my silver and my gold,
Not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect and use
Every pow’r as Thou shalt choose.
Take my will and make it Thine,
It shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart, it is Thine own,
It shall be Thy royal throne.
Take my love, my Lord, I pour
At Thy feet its treasure store.
Take myself and I will be
Ever, only, all for Thee.
Story Behind the Hymn
Teach What is Good 