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,”
To understand the exact sense of this verse, it is important to see its context.
The Galatian believers had fallen into a state of legality.
The words “again” and “until” tell us something.
At one point in the believers’ experience, Christ had already been formed in them.
Then they lost Christ as the One who was everything in their hearts.
Now Paul is travailing again until Christ is formed in them.
This substantiates the truth that Christ being formed in them was not a process; otherwise, they would be waiting indefinitely for this to take place and would not need Paul’s “again” prayer.
Christ “formed” is Christ restored instantly in our hearts as our center, our focus, our point of reference for relating to all things.
Paul was travailing again until this would happen in the believers.
To know the meaning of Galatians 4:19, it is also important to understand the significance of the verb “formed” as it was used by Paul.
In elementary school, we all learned that verbs are action words.
In our English language, verbs emphasize the time in which the action takes place, whether past, present, or future.
Thus, in English the time of the action is what is important.
However, in the Greek language, the emphasis with the verb is on the kind of action taking place, rather than the time of the action.
The action takes place either in an instantaneous way or in a progressive way.
Instantaneous action is called punctiliar, and progressive action is called linear.
For Christ to be formed in us means that He is instantly poured out into our hearts, so that He becomes our relationship with everything from that moment on.
He is now our continuous point of reference.
He is the source from which we live.
He is the way we handle everything in our lives.
He is the way we relate to ourselves.
He is the One in whom we constantly abide.
He is the Christian life living His life in us.
In short, He is our life.
Christ formed in us means that He is formed within our hearts as our all in all!
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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