“For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.””
Galatians 5:14 NLT
Paul is teaching the Galatians a few lessons regarding keeping the Law. They had started in freedom in Christ but had been seduced by travelling preachers who convinced them that circumcision was right to do. Paul strips away such fallacy and has a go at the way they treat one another. The verse after 14 says: ‘if you bite and devour one another, watch out, you will be consumed by one another’. Pretty fierce words. However, if we love one another as we love ourselves we can’t do wrong. Jesus Himself taught this.
I love verse 13: ‘for you were called to freedom, brothers; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love’. The flesh loves to strut around under law keeping: “look at me, aren’t I good!” No! Because we discredit Jesus and His sacrifice! It is not about us, but Him!
Learning to live in grace by faith is important. Faith in the finished work of the cross saves us, our strutting condemns us. Let go of self- righteousness! Amen!
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