“I
desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice, for I stand in doubt
of you.” Gal 4:20
Paul
painfully illustrates his patience with Christians as a mother re-birthing her
child (vs 19). Even though they
understood and received their salvation from the beginning, they now had to renew
(rebirth) their zeal which had fallen away by their own doing (vs 15a). Paul, standing in doubt; which is rendered in
the Latin as “I am confounded by you”
is perplexed causing him to reestablish their view of Christ’s goodness. IT IS perplexing for a new Christian having
been delivered from a pagan world, to being placed into an apostate one. Christianity
cannot be lived standing on a line between giving up or seeing how much you can
stand; if it is truth, which it is, it has to be lived in infinite proportion…it
cannot not be of moderation. Stop leaving and Christ will get you where He
wants you; Stop searching and you’ll find what He has for you; Stop running and
you’ll be found.
“Before
we can see what the cross has done for us, we have to see it as something done
by us.”
HSAY…Todd
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