Hello to you all. Good Morning! Today we are reading Galatians 5:1-6. I have posted it below. If you have a few extra minutes please share your insights or thoughts. Here are today’s verses for you to read.
“5 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. 2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.” Galatians 5:1-6
“It is for freedom Christ has set us free.” Galations 5:1
Christ had set them free from the law, the power of sin, and the power of death, and yet the Galatians were wanting to return to the yoke of slavery. They were relying on their circumcision to earn favor with God but it truly counted for nothing with God. God was only looking for their faith. A free person should not want to return to slavery, yet we see some people reject the grace of Christ and try to earn favor with God either through their good works or through following legalistic man-made rules. Friends, if you are in the habit of adding too many rules to your life, you will grow weary in your walk with the Lord. A good work becomes a sin if it is for the purpose of earning favor with God. Instead, we should do good out of a heart of faith and love.
My reflection for the day: Paul emphasizes that grace, faith, and love are to be our lifestyle; we must not submit ourselves to religious rules, traditions, that other people have adopted then try and place them on us! At this time during Pauls’s ministry, the people who had found grace were now being pressured to add the Jewish law to their walk with God, like circumcision. Unfortunately, many succumbed to that and Paul is warning them, and us, don’t do it, it will not add anything to your salvation. The Bible says Christ set us free that’s the whole point of our salvation. We need to instead live by the 2 most important commandments that Jesus gave us which are to love the Lord our God and to love our neighbors as ourselves. I wanted to share a teaching from a very good friend of mine, Fiona DesFontein, who really does a good job with teaching on freedom of the law ~ if you have a chance to watch this, let me know what you think. https://youtu.be/TfwmcQmji8k
Reflection Question: In what ways or areas have you fallen away from grace and freedom in your life?
Life's Journey 
Sometime by putting to much on my plate makes always trying to catch up so I’m tried and frustrated so I try to remember that God said in 2nd Timothy 4:7 “ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
He never said here how just finish.
Thank you for joining in on this study and for making a comment. I love that verse in Timothy and often find myself just saying, “Keep the faith,” as I run the race. I am blessed to be running the race with you 🙂