“Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now
perfected in the flesh?” Galatians 3:3
Paul makes it clear in his letter to the Romans that the
sinner depends on the grace of God for his salvation. In Galatians he shows us
that the believer depends equally upon that grace for his continuance in the
Christian life. We never did anything, or gave God anything, for our salvation,
and this must be the basis of our walk with him.
God begins by giving us a new position so that we have a
new start. If I am down at the bottom of a pit, then I continue there with no
way of getting out of it until God lifts me out and puts me upon a rock. He
does this by placing me in Christ. By doing so he has settled all my past.
But he has gone further than that. By placing the life of
Christ within me, he has given me all I need for the present and for the entire
future. Spiritual progress, then, is not by an agonizing striving to attain,
but by looking trustfully to God’s grace and continuing to receive of Christ’s fullness.
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