Scripture: Galatians 4:19-20 My little children, for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you, I wish I were present with you now and could change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. Thought for the Day: How seriously do you take the faith needs of others? Paul uses a motherly image to portray both the intimacy and pain he
Scripture: Galatians 4:16-18 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? They make much of you, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you may make much of them. It is good to be made much of for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you. Thought for the Day: Those who believe
Scripture: Galatians 4:15 What has become of the goodwill you felt? For I testify that, had it been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. Thought for the Day: Yuck! That’s disgusting! Is Paul suggesting self-mutilation for the sake of the faith? …probably not. It is thought that Paul was using a common figure of speech…at least common in his day. It
Scripture: Galatians 4:13-14 You know that it was because of a physical infirmity that I first announced the gospel to you; though my condition put you to the test, you did not scorn or despise me, but welcomed me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. Thought for the Day: There has been an ongoing speculative debate about Paul’s physical infirmity. Paul was vague at best when
Scripture: Galatians 4:6-12 And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God. Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods. Now, however, that you have come to know
Scripture: Galatians 4:1-5 My point is this: heirs, as long as they are minors, are no better than slaves, though they are the owners of all the property; but they remain under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father. So with us; while we were minors, we were enslaved to the elemental spirits of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God
Scripture: Galatians 3:27-29 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. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise. Thought for the Day: These
Scripture: Galatians 3:22-26 But the scripture has imprisoned all things under the power of sin, so that what was promised through faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. But now
Sorry, but I realized that I skipped vs. 10 of chapter two… Scripture: Galatians 2:10 They asked only one thing, that we remember the poor, which was actually what I was eager to do. Thought for the Day: For Paul, it was a no-brainer! For the rest of the Christian community, it was a given. The poor would be remembered, and not just in prayer, but in
Scripture: Galatians 2:14-21 But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?” We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is justified