Wednesday Reading: Galatians 2:19-21
Key Verse: Galatians 2:19
19 For through the Law I died to the law, that I might live to God.
Devotion:
Once we have identified that we are the ones that are wrong, the sinners in need of forgiveness, and once we believe that Christ is the one who can forgive us, our lives can change from living for ourselves to living for God. This does not mean that we have to give up doing anything that does not relate to God for if we were to stop living in this world we would not be much use to those who do not yet know Christ. Instead what God would have us do is to turn our backs on the ways of the world and live our lives in a way that is more acceptable to Him.
Does this mean that we are slaves and have no choice in what we do anymore? Far from it. God created us with freedom of choice. He has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that He loves us beyond our comprehension. The only logical conclusion must therefore be that we can use that free choice to live our lives returning that love.
For as long as we continue to live our lives for the world, we live in lust, greed and generally bad choices – choices made because we have had the truth covered by all manner of corruption following on from the lust, greed and bad choices of others. The only way that we can then escape from this spiral of conflicts is to turn our backs on those ways that will suck us into those spirals of conflict. That change is our choice. We can choose to ignore the bad choices and consequences or we can choose to change our ways and live for God; whether people will understand why we have changed is another thing – but that will give us opportunity to tell them of our new lives in Christ!
Points to Ponder:
Do you want to change?
Are you relying on God for that change yet?