Galatians 3:5 I ask you again, does God give you the Holy Spirit and work miracles among you because you obey the law? Of course not! It is because you believe the message you heard about Christ.
Wow! God wants to work miracles among us! What a wonderful thought! Perhaps we don’t often read or think about that but He explains we can’t receive the Holy Spirit or see miracles by obeying the law.
I wonder if we’ve ever fallen into the trap of thinking ‘if I just prayed more, performed better, or did more good works, God would be pleased and give me the miracle I need? Here the Apostle Paul tells us that’s wrong thinking because we’re no longer under the law and having to perform. Thank You Lord.
So what is right thinking? He tells us we only receive anything at all from God because of His grace, by believing the message about Jesus Christ and all He did for us on the cross. Many people think that is solely about having our sins forgiven and a home in heaven, but it is so much more and if we can grasp hold of that truth we will enter into everything else God has for us including miracles.
Sometimes we forget salvation in the original language includes God not only giving us His forgiveness, righteousness, peace and joy, but also His healing, His prosperity, His protection and more. Jesus went to the cross for us for it all praise God. It’s one of those ‘forsaking our own thoughts’ things and embracing what God says so we can enter His perfect will.😊
And if ever you’ve said “It’ll take a miracle” either for yourself or for someone else, know God wants to work miracles among us but it’s never because we do or don’t deserve it because of our performance. Have you ever heard it said “Oh they deserve healing they’re such a good person,”? They’re still thinking under ‘law’ and forgotten we only receive because of what Jesus has done!
It’s so wonderful it doesn’t depend on us anymore, but we can just believe the message we’ve heard about Jesus and receive all of His wonderful saving grace in every area of life and rest in Him with great expectancy of seeing the Holy Spirit work His miracles among us.
Why not take the time to read the whole of Galatians 3 in a modern translation? It’s well worth another read and let the Holy Spirit continue renewing our minds, if we might need it.😊
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