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“You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you?”

Day 17: Monday, March 25, 2019

Galatians 3:1-6

       Paul’s cry of frustration at the Galatians reminds me of the lyrics of a song sung by the scarecrow in the Broadway musical the Wiz.  When we first meet the scarecrow, he is being bullied by, of all things, a bunch of crows.  Beyond the irony of a scarecrow who is afraid of crows, is the tragedy that these crows have convinced him that he is caught in a fool’s game that he can’t win.  As they bully him, they make him sing the rules of their game:

          “You can’t win, you can’t break even, and you can’t get out of the game!”

       It’s a fool’s game that the scarecrow hopelessly continues to play because he does not know who he is, he does not know what he is made of, and he does not understand the promise that is within him. It is this same sad state of affairs that the Apostle Paul is addressing head on when he exclaims to the Galatians as he opens Chapter 3:

         “You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you?…  Are you so foolish?
         After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by
         means of the flesh?”

       Paul is saying, “You have allowed somebody to trick you into striving by means of your own flesh, for that which has already been freely placed inside of you by the power of God’s Holy Spirit.  This is the same hopeless game we play when we try to earn God’s favor, rather than simply resting in God’s grace.

Read This Week:  Galatians 3:1-29

Respond: 

•      What does this passage say about the security of all those who place their faith in Jesus Christ?

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