Today’s devotion comes from Galatians 3:27-29.
“27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.” Galatians 3:27-29.
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Today’s Scripture provides the conclusion to this chapter and provides the answer to the question of what we should seek: the Law or Christ. By stating it by three different phrases, today’s Scripture provides an exclamation point in its answer. Our goal is to “belong to Christ” also stated as “clothed yourselves with Christ” also stated simply as “in Christ”, and thus we are “heirs according to promise”.
Our comfort is not in the Law. We are not going to prove our righteousness under the Law. We are not going to receive a blessing under the Law. Rather, under the Law, we will only prove how great of sinners that we are with the result of spiritual death. Romans 7:7-11.
“… For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law. But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. 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.” Galatians 3:21-25.
Our comfort is that we belong to Christ. Even though we have read Question and Answer 1 of The Heidelberg Catechism hundreds of times, it still brings us the freshness and the joy of an ocean’s breeze.
“Question 1. What is thy only comfort in life and death?
Answer. That I with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong unto my faithful Savior Jesus Christ; who, with his precious blood, hath fully satisfied for all my sins, and delivered me from all the power of the devil; and so preserves me that without the will of my heavenly Father, not a hair can fall from my head; yea, that all things must be subservient to my salvation, and therefore, by his Holy Spirit, he also assures me of eternal life, and makes me sincerely willing and ready, henceforth, to live unto him.
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