Galatians // Life With The Spirit
Without an experience of grace, all our good deeds are essentially self-interested, impersonal, and conditional. We do “the right thing” in order to get into heaven, or in order to better our self-esteem. But people who know they are totally accepted already do “the right thing” out of grateful love. “Neither circumcision (religion) or uncircumcision (irreligion) has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love” (Gal. 5:6). Only in the gospel do you obey God for God’s sake and not for what God may give. Therefore, only in the gospel can a person love others for their sake, do good for its own sake, and obey God for His sake. Only the gospel makes “doing the right thing” a joy and delight, not a burden or a means to an end.
"But when you are directed by the Spirit, you are not under obligation to the law of Moses.”
-Galatians 5:18 (NLT)-
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