Gift of God Devotional

“When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, ‘You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?’” Galatians‬ ‭2‬:‭14‬ ‭NIV‬‬

We. Are. Not. Of. This. World. So, we should not live as if we are of the world. Let’s look at that verse again, and change the word “Jew” to “Christian” and the word “Gentile” to “non-Christian.” Now it will read: 

“You are a Christian, yet you live like a non-Christian and not like a Christian. How is it, then, that you force non-Christians to follow Christian customs?”

Are we living as Christians, as the “little-Christ’s” which that word means? Or, are we living as if we are “of the world”?

In Galatians 2:20, Paul tells us this: “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.” When we are crucified with Christ, it means we agree to surrender every part of our lives to Jesus – our goals, our plans, our ideas, and even our relationship. As the old hymn says: “I surrender all, I surrender all; All to Thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all.”

Are you freely giving Jesus all of your life, as Jesus freely gave you His life for your sake?

Let’s live as a light to the world around us, quite literally “practicing what we preach.” Let’s give Jesus all of ourselves so that He might work in us and through us.