When we are sidetracked or deceived, ie off track, we can be turned back to Christ. How many times do u and do I need to come back to Christ! Thank God for His grace and mercy and thank God for His burden for us to come back to Him when we are way off track. So often we do not even know where it is that we truly have ended up.
Paul expected that Christ would be formed in the Galatians even though they had gotten off track.
"My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you"
Christ needs to be our focus and it is possible once you receive Christ to get off track, off relationship of our merging and focus with Him - One with Him. Thank God our Spirit does cry Abba Father and does cry and intercede with the Father on our behalf.
Have you been off track ? Are you off track today perhaps? I have definitely been off track that's why I find the book of Galatians so encouraging. Paul's certainty as he tells us it is no longer I who live, but Christ that lives in us. That cuts through to the very heart and truth of our being in Christ. Paul also tells us to reckon ourselves dead to sin and to be living unto God in Christ. He died for us and Paul is just telling us to call upon Christ , Christ lives in us. Coming back on track is to focus in on the certainty of Christ being alive and living in us.
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6 comments:
Nicely put. Sadly, it's so much easier to get off track than it is to get back on. I was actually reading Galatians last night as I was leaning off the track. God's Word has amazing power to get us focused.
I like you blog! Looking forward to future posts!
Hi Karen,
thanks for your encouragement about my blog. It's really true isn't it, we get off track sooo easy and Father is so wonderful to patiently bring us back to His Son.
Paul was certain that Christ would be formed in them, even though they were off track! that for sure is encouraging!
Ruth,
I love His love for you, and you’re love for Him, our loving caring Father, what a blessing you R!
You might like if you care to, take a look at something a brother has shared (recently brought to my attention) on the book of Galatians…I trust Father will richly encourage, and keep provoking you unto love and good works…works He loves to initiate in us as us.
http://www.christinyall.com/studies/gal/free.html
"All sins are attempts to fill voids." Simone Weil
We might try to fill the voids we so deeply feel by doing bad things or by doing good things. When we salve the ache in our hearts, which only God himself can satisfy, by doing good things, we then feel proud and think God owes us and we get angry when he doesn't fork over. When we salve the ache within by doing bad things, we feel shamed and think God despises us and slink away from him in bitterness and cynicism. But we are the ones complicating our souls.
Filling the void with anything but God is a sin. Sin can involve doing a good thing, or sin can involve doing a bad thing. But only God can comfort us. Only God can fill our souls with the magnitude of the One we long for. And he does, freely, on terms of grace. "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God." 1 Peter 3:18
To be empty and disappointed and brokenhearted does not disqualify you from God. It means God is near, if you'll have him.
Hi Rich,
I have that site on my favorites, I will check it out again! thank you for commenting and for mentioning that to me. I also love your heart that is so after God. thank you for that.
Hi there IKE:
I love what you said. I agree whole heartedly and thank you for adding to the post.
I would add to your comment that falling into sin in trying to satisfy within us the void, becomes a cycle that we cannot break free from apart from His mercy and grace. Instead, the wheels just turn faster and faster in our attempts to satisfy or put a deposit within that void. (I won't say fill) Though we may have fleeting moments where we think we have succeeded, truly sooner or later, we are once again back on theat treadmill of trying to make the next deposit. The wages of sin 'are death' and God has not changed his mind on this one. Though we think we gain life, we are truly dying on the inside from this unending energy being expended towards some sort of satisfaction and meaning to our lives. It seems to be the one apparent driving force in all humanity.
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