A Life At Peace With God

Galatians 2:18-19

"For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make

myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead

to the law, that I might live unto God." 

    Paul speaks here from personal experience. For him to re-erect the whole fabric of the law would have been spiritual suicide. He said that through the law he died to the law that he might live to God. Basically what he means is; he had tried the way of law, he had tried with all the terrible intensity of his heart to put himself right with God by a life that sought to obey every single item of that law. 
    He had found that such an attempt produced nothing but a deeper and deeper sense that all he could do could never put him right with God. All the law had done was to show him his own helplessness. Therefore he had suddenly abandoned that way and had cast himself, sinner as he was, on the mercy of God. It was the law which had driven him to God. To go back to the law would simply have entangled him all over again in the sense of alienation from God. So great was the change that the only way he could describe it was to say that he had been crucified with Christ so that the man he used to be was dead and the living power within him now was Christ himself.
    "If I can put myself to rights with God by obeying the law then what is the need of grace? If I can win my own salvation, why did Christ have to die?"  I know that Jesus Christ has done for me what he could never have done for himself. "The just shall live by faith." A life at peace with God can never be attained by this futile, never ending, ever defeated effort; it could be had only by casting ourselves on the love and mercy of God as the Gospel of Jesus Christ has revealed them to us. 
Amen!

Reading: (Gal. 2:11-21)
Ref: (HG SB; DSB) 

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry