Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Galatians 4:19, “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,”
The verse above tells us that Christ was no longer formed in the hearts of the Galatian believers.
What was formed in them was Moses and the law.
When something is formed in you, your mind goes to that.
Your thoughts go to that.
It is like a mold in there, and you think and reason according to that mold.
In their relationship with God, the Galatians were oriented to laws and rules.
That is what was formed in them.
That is what had molded their thinking.
That was their point of reference.
When your thinking is molded by the law, the law is like a mirror looking right back at you–at your law-breaking flesh, your failing self, your unfinished, untransformed, unconformed state.
You see all the blemishes, and it is terrifying.
That is what happens when you are related to the law, because you are related to God’s goal as a demand that we must attain instead of a result of interacting with Christ.
The final goal of conformation to Christ takes care of itself when our spirit and our heart simply stay engaged with loving Christ.
“God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts.”
God wants our hearts to be occupied with Him!
This does not mean that we are “finished products.”
But this is how you become a finished product.
This is the way–by handling everything with Christ.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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