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Son sent, Grace meant

Bible Reading: Galatians 4: 1-7

Key Verse:  Galatians 4:6
“Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, ‘Abba, Father’.”


DEVOTION

Jesus is the divine son of God the Father.  The people of Galatia came into faith and accepted Jesus Christ as their savior.  But after sometime they were influenced by some others and began to swerve from their original faith.  St. Paul comes to know about this and write this epistle to chastise and bring them back to their former faith in Jesus Christ.  This is a gospel of faith from the part of Apostle Paul.  He talks of himself and explains how he came to faith life by the grace of God.  Jesus Christ, the son was sent sent from above because God the Father loved the world so much.  It is by grace that man gets salvation and not by any other merit of man.  And because of the grace of God the son Jesus became a sacrificial lamb for the whole human race.  

St. Paul asks Galatians how they could forget Jesus Christ, who by His Grace, called them.  The Apostle asks them how they could turn to another belief that is based on the law of Moses. By the same grace we become His adopted sons and daughters through Jesus Christ.  And the Holy Spirit will live in our hearts and we will get the privilege to call Him, ‘Father’ (Abba).
 
We, as Christians should adhere ourselves to our faith in Jesus Christ. Let us not change our faith when diversions occur.  We got salvation through no merit of ourselves, but by the grace of God.  We should succumb ourselves to the spirit- directed obedience so that we will reap eternal life (Gal. 6:8).  

  PRAYER

O Lord, we are called by your grace.  You came to this world to redeem us from our sins.  You died in our place.  Strengthen and help us O Lord, to live a good life on the earth so that we become inheritors of your kingdom.  Amen.
 

Thought of the day

“The will of God will not take us where the Grace of God cannot sustain us.” (Billy Graham)


Prof. Elias Abraham
Baltimore Mar Thoma Church

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