June 16th
I love how Paul starts the 3rd chapter in Galatians. He begins with, you foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly exhibited as crucified! He goes on to ask if they received the Spirit by doing works or by believing what they had heard. It got me thinking how sometimes amidst all our denominations and different religions we to get bewitched into thinking certain rules, creeds or whatever are the way to God. We get caught up in our own denominations way of doing things. Not that those rules or laws or whatever are always bad. But it is in those religious and denominational guidelines we seem to become slaves to a certain way of doing things. We lose the focus on what Jesus does for us. He frees us from being slave to anything. He makes us all one in Christ.
I think if Paul walked into our church today he might say the same thing to us, you foolish people! Who has bewitched you?
As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. Galatians3:27-28
I praise God for the promise he made so long ago freeing us from the law and giving us the freedom that come with knowing Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
This has been my favorite reading for the week so far, mostly because I thought about the same things you just mentioned as I was reading. It really does make you stop and think, doesn't it!
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