John 8:34 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

John 8:34 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. - In these times of war, pain, disaster, poverty many people long to be free. Usually, by being free they - and we - mean to have our western freedom to speak, eat, sleep in a bed, being able to work, love, hope, go to school or leave it as seems to fit the mood. Free from the tyranny of dictators of this world. But there is one dictator, nobody can escape. His name is sin.
As long as we commit any sin, even the smallest, we admit we know our ruler. It is inborn. The need to sin is inborn to us. Inherited like a genetic code. We wouldn't do better than Adam and Eve. They are prototypes of the human race. We might even do a lot worse. 
I sometimes wonder, whether this inborn need to sin has been spread into nature. The lion didn't always eat meat. He started to do so after Noah came out of the arc. Maybe many more ills of nature are bound to our fall. Paul said so. he wrote that all of nature is groaning, expecting to be freed from slavery. 
Does even the butterfly sin? In all its innocent and fragile beauty? How can he - how can I ever be free? Grace be to the Lord Jesus Christ who opened a door for all, a to get away from the worst tyrant of all: Sin.