DAY 616 - Going Back to Your Old Self? (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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                               Today's Reading: Galatians 5:1-6

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Bible Study

      Paul reminds those Galatians that they have been freed and should not go back to slavery again. Christians do not need to have circumcision, that's final and can't be negotiated. 

Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      The physical marks of membership in Abraham's family, or the absence of such marks, are not the point.  What matters is faith.
      But it is not a bare faith, simply giving credence to a set of beliefs... it is faith that works through love. Love is open to all, no matter of what ethnic origin; but, even more, love is precisely the motivating force through which God himself welcomes all believers into his family. 
    

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:Galatians and Thessalonians. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.63.
     

      Has Jesus set you free? Or, are you going back to your old self "be burdened again by a yoke of slavery"? 

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: Going back to your old self?

    What I got from Jesus today is a reality check. It is not easy to be set free by Jesus. But, it is so easy to go back to our old self into slavery again.

    How do you know that you are in slavery again? Well, Paul already says it very clear. It is your faith that works through love. To have faith in Jesus and to trust each others is a lifelong learning. To have faith that works through love is so difficult. Why? Because we really can't love. We don't have the time and the heart to love. Only Jesus can set you free to love. Only in Jesus can you be able to love. 

Daddy,

Help us to be able to have faith in you and be able to love. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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