It All Starts With Christ

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:26-28

We live in a world where people are constantly frowned upon based on their religion, upbringing and color of skin or nationality. The same things that plague our communities today are the same things which existed at the time of this letter written by the Apostle Paul. It is through today’s devotion that we are reminded that Christ justifies every walk of life to be clothed with Him in and through Faith… Your economic status nor your popularity has any impact on your heavenly dwelling… It is only through Christ Jesus that we have life and have it more abundantly… This message today is an important one as we all at some point in time have felt or have been deemed unqualified...  To understand that there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free teaches us that your former doesn’t have to restrict your latter in Christ… Yes we all have done things which we are not proud of; we all have missed the mark and fallen short of the glory of God… Paul once called himself the chief sinner; however, through Christ His former was wiped clean and His latter included writing a majority of the New Testament… 

It is imperative that we understand the message written to the church of Galatia and how it applies to our lives today; we cannot allow our thoughts to be captivated by the enemy and thus begin to disqualify others from knowing Christ based on their past… You yourself do not have a right but have been afforded a privilege and an opportunity to come to know Christ and it is your duty to share Him with others…We all have our own testimony as to how we came to know Christ as our personal savior; we all have a past; however, the end result of each member of Christ is the same (we are saved through Him)… This is why the Jew is the same as the Gentile and why the slave is no different than the one who is free… Christ is the catalyst to our turnaround and it is through Christ that we are called children of God…  Your path may be different from mine, you may have come to know Christ through a much different route than I did, but the end of both of our days will be the same in that we will be caught up to meet Him in the air to spend Eternity with Him… Today, don’t write of your peers based on their past, don’t think more highly of yourself than you ought to because without Christ you are nothing, but through Him all things are possible (the wayward, lost and confused soul can still be saved and inherit Eternal Life through Christ)… There is a equation that fits this passage which again speaks to the fact that we are equal with Christ and equal without Him… No Christ = No Heaven, Know Christ = Know Heaven…

ALL FOR HIS GLORY!