Issue 13 - Day 5

Galatians 2

Galatians 2:17-19
17)  But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
18)  For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
19)  For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

What is the end result of trying to attain, and maintain salvation by your own efforts? Quite simple it is failure. It is impossible to attain and maintain the level of perfection that God requires. If we try our hardest and fail all the time, but the fact that Christians sin does not make God a God of sin. No it is us who have messed up.

To many times we continue to do the things we did before meeting the Lord. The reality is that having by the law of God seen that we are sinners, we are to become dead to that life. God has created in us a new life, a spiritual, perfect life. We are saved, not so that we can escape the punishment for sin, but that we may live for Christ. If you read any stories of the defeat of evil dictators, whether fact or fiction, the results are always the same. Good triumphs over evil, yet the people of that town/city/country/empire somehow continue to live their lives unchanged. Even the machinery of government does not really change, just the people at the top. We live our lives in the same way. Even though Christ is now the head we try to live the same old lives and not change the way we operate. All wrong, everything needs to change and God becomes the ruler of every part of our lives.

Ask God to reveal to you what needs to change in your life. Turn away from your old habits and learn to walk in his ways. Make the pursuit of God, and his attitudes your prime goal in life, he will reward you with treasure in Heaven.