Reformed Doctrine Daily Devotions

Today’s devotion comes from Galatians 3:23-26.

 

“²³ But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. 

 

²⁴ Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.

 

²⁵ But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

 

²⁶ For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.”  Galatians 3:23-26.

 

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The teacher graduates her students, and the students leave the teacher and classroom and enter the next grade or work or otherwise get on with their lives.   Likewise, “Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.  But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.”  Verses 23 and 24.   

 

The train delivers its passengers to the end, the station, and the passengers get off the train and enter the station and proceed to their destination.  Likewise, the Law delivers us to Christ.  “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.”  Romans 10:4.  

 

The father hands his daughter to the groom, and the daughter leaves the father and joins her husband.  Likewise, “Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.”  Romans 7:4.

 

The Law leads us to Christ, and we leave the Law and cling to Christ.  “For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.  I have been crucified with Christ;  and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me;  and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.”  Galatians 2:19-20. 

 

“For in Him (Christ) all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;  and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;  having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.  When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us;  and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.  When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.”  Colossians 2:9-15.