This Week's Reading: Galatians

"I am astonished that you have so quickly turned from the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel -- which is really no gospel at all. Actually
there is no other Gospel."  Galatians 1:6-7

Galatians was Paul’s first letter, written in 49 AD to the churches he had founded in what is now Turkey. When he had gotten home from this first missionary journey he got word that the new believers returned to rule keeping rather than reliance on the sheer grace of God. 

Paul was explicit. Guilt inducing rule keeping is a system of enslavement. But grace, the unmerited, unearned, undeserved gift of God is a system of freedom. The former results in living under a cloud of judgment. The latter is living with the wind that dispels the clouds. The former majors in bad news. The latter majors in, and in fact is, The Good News. 

How about you? Under which system do you live? 

Prayer

“Lord, I am discovering how every part of my of life is sheer gift. It’s all gift, nothing, absolutely nothing excluded. Thank You Lord. Amen”