The Word of God for wisdom:
Proverbs 23:22 (HCSB)
22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.
The Word of God for inspiration:
Psalm 63:1 (HCSB)
1 God, You are my God; I eagerly seek You. I thirst for You; my body faints for You in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.
Psalm 63:3 (HCSB)
3 My lips will glorify You because Your faithful love is better than life.
The Word of God for encouragement:
Galatians 5:1-6 (HCSB)
1 Christ has liberated us to be free. Stand firm then and don't submit again to a yoke of slavery.
2 Take note! I, Paul, tell you that if you get yourselves circumcised, Christ will not benefit you at all.
3 Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to keep the entire law.
4 You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.
5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.
My observation:
Never is truer the statement, "Freedom is not free", then when it comes to the salvation of lost sinners. The hymn writer captured this truth in a line that says, "Jesus paid it all, all to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain; he washed it white as snow".
Paul admonishes the Galatians to not make the error of mixing law with grace for in doing so you deny Christ.
Galatians 5:2 (HCSB)
2 Take note! I, Paul, tell you that if you get yourselves circumcised, Christ will not benefit you at all.
The law can never provide you with the hope that you have in Christ alone for your salvation. The faith that saves is able to give you hope that God will complete what he begins in his believing children.
Galatians 5:5 (HCSB)
5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
Those who trust in God can gladly put their hope in Christ alone; you will never be disappointed. If you have been set free, don't be enslaved by adding anything to your salvation.
Galatians 5:6 (HCSB)
6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.
My prayer:
Our Father in heaven, my dear Father, I am so grateful and thankful to you for the love of God and the grace of God that found me, and delivered me from the penalty of my sins, which is eternal separation from God. Father, I dare not add any works that I could possible do to the work that Jesus has already done.
Father, like your servant David, may I join him in saying, "with my lips and my life, I will glorify you". In Jesus name, Amen.
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Galatians 1:3-5 (HCSB)
3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.
5 To whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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