Devotion Corner

Galatians 3:3 Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect in the flesh?

One of the wondrous glories of salvation by grace through faith, is the simplicity of it all. Every true convert to Christ, remembers that happy day when Jesus washed our sins away. It was the day when our once dead spirit before God, was brought to life by the Spirit of God. Our life in Christ was delivered to us by the power of the Spirit, and the liberty of faith we knew in those early days of faith was beautiful to us.

Sometimes though, we can find ourselves being caught up in “every wind of doctrine” (Ephesians 4:14). These confusing realms of things like legalism, emotionalism, libertinism, evolutionism, and many other ‘isms’, pull us away from living in the Spirit each day. These corruptions of the purity of the Gospel, draw us away from the easy yoke of Christ. Such corruptions of the Gospel look to place us back under the heavy weight of the law, a works-based faith, or self-justification. In our fallen pride, we think that we can perfect our faith by adding our efforts to God’s work. This is truly foolishness, just as the Apostle Paul observed towards the Galatians, who were slipping into these damaging ways. 

To seek to grow and ‘perfect’ our faith is a good goal to pursue. We are to look to know the goodness of Christ Jesus ever deeper, ever truer each day. But we must never adjust course from the blessed path that led us to Him in the first place! It was by the Holy Spirit that we were brought to know the Lord Jesus as our Saviour and Redeemer, and it will be by Him (the Holy Spirit) that we will grow and ‘perfect’ our faith in Christ. This is the only means of achieving this good and Godly goal. 

So, remain on the straight and narrow path that first led you to Christ. Here, through the blessed work of the Holy Spirit, we can look to grow in faith with happy certainty and joyful fruitfulness. Amen.