Gal. 3

Live by faith … or the Law?

Through faith we receive all that God has to offer. It’s a growth process. We begin by faith, progress by faith, and will conclude by faith. In the Law (or any system of merit through works) if you mess up at all, you have violated the entire system.

Paul was so vexed by the Galatian believers because they thought they advanced with God through good works and compliance to the Law. His letter, Galatians, attempted to correct their error and get them walking by faith, the best deal in the universe.

P.S. The major spiritual truths of God’s Word are so often the themes of great hymns of the Christian faith. We don’t hear these hymns any more in contemporary worship services, sadly. That’s one reason why I like to expose my readers to some of these hymns when they come to my mind.