Faith and Works Part IV
Our current world is filled with many alternatives to the life of righteousness required in Christ, be very careful who you’re learning from, because it will influence what you believe. Our scriptural focus for today states – You have suffered so much for the Gospel. Now are you going to just throw it all overboard? I can hardly believe it!. {Gal 3:4 TLB}
The Galatian Christians were idol worshippers before the coming of Apostle Paul and his team that brought the gospel of grace to them. It is obvious that for them to abandon the idols they having been worshipping for the new life in Christ cost them so much persecution from their fellow Galatians who did not receive the message of grace. Apostle Paul had to also remain them of how much they have suffered for Christ in the past and puts the question to them – Will all their suffering for the sake of the gospel be in vain?.
Abandoning the gospel of grace which brought them into a personal relationship with God through Christ for the law which use to be the way to God through human efforts was a bitter pile for Apostle Paul to swallow, bearing in mind that he had to leave the law with all the zeal he had for the gospel of grace.
It is also painful to see Christians who started well, who went through all manner of persecutions from family members, friends, etc just to defend their faith in Christ, later lured into other alternatives as a means of still having their personal relationship with God away from Christ. If you’re already in this deception like the Galatian Christians, our question to you is – Will all you suffered for Christ be in vain and go unrewarded by God? Think about it.
Do not throw away your conviction about Christ for any other alternative to God, because of the pressures of life, definitely one day you will leave this world to meet with God.
When you abandon Christ, you abandon life.
Have a Grace filled day, Good News awaits you.
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Last modified: August 15, 2016
