A Promise

DEVOTION
GALATIONS
A PROMISE
Gal 4:21-23
21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. 23 His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.
NIV
So I am back to this slave or free thing again. It is either the law or faith. It is either by human effort or by the divine promise of God. Let’s see, I think I will take the divine promise of God. That seems to be a no brainer. Why in the world would I ever choose the human effort? I must ask myself if I am a slave to certain behaviors and attitudes. I do think they are habits and some habits are not exactly good ones. Having certain attitudes toward some people is just a bad habit I need to get rid of. Hypocrisy would be a bad habit, although I do not think I own that one. The way I respond in certain situations is a bad habit I need to overcome. I might be able to call myself on a few others but the point I think I am making to myself is I am not a perfect being, I make errors, and those mistakes, those sins are habit forming and just maybe I am putting myself into slavery to those things. That is a major mistake. I can’t make excuses that I am only human, but that is the reality of it. Yet I do not look to my perfection as a means to enter into a right relationship with God. I do not see any human effort to be good enough to do that. I am convinced of the need to live under the promise of God because no matter how hard I try I will never be able to rid myself of some form of sin which I under the law I am guilty and am due death as a punishment. If I have to choose between me and Jesus, I take Jesus every time. No law for me, just a promise.