I come to the end of this amazing letter from Paul. My 75th devotional on the letter to the Galatians dealing with one major problem: circumcision of the flesh as the means to be approved by God.
In this final sentence Paul sums it up well.
“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.” (Galatians 6 v 18)
It is not the circumcision of the flesh that is important but that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be in our spirit.
We are saved by grace and we continue this Christian life not by what we do but by His grace in our lives.
How do we get past the ‘holiness’ lists when we recognise ourselves within them?
Grace.
Grace is challenged continually across the world by preachers who are concerned about a sinful Church. The fact is the Grace of God is the answer to a sinful Church.
To live by grace means you are not denying or trying to forget the sin in your life, but by allowing grace to expose it you find who you really are. Grace calls you to keep coming back to Jesus. Let Jesus bind up the wounds.
Let grace be with you and with you in the midst of others. Let the community of God’s people be marked by grace words, grace reactions and grace decisions.
Until He comes let grace live!
This is the end of Paul’s letter. But grace will enable us to live it out.
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