{"id":538,"date":"2017-09-03T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2017-09-03T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T17:09:13","slug":"9-3-17-17-devotion-galatians-56-love-love-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"9-3-17-17\u00a0\u00a0 Devotion\u00a0\u00a0 Galatians 5:6\u00a0\u00a0 Love, Love, Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Galatians 5:6 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0For in Christ Jesus\u00a0neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value.\u00a0The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.<\/span><\/p>\n

V6a<\/strong> \u2013 It is not whether we live up to the law, or whether we have not lived up to the law that has value.\u00a0 We know that by our deeds none of us will go to heaven.\u00a0 The scripture is absolute about this.\u00a0 We go to heaven only by the grace of God that we receive through Jesus.\u00a0 That is the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

V6b <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cThe only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love<\/span>.\u201d\u00a0 We are saved by faith and not by works (Ephesians 2:8-9<\/strong>).\u00a0 We know that and quickly admit that we are sinners and are saved only by grace (John 1:8<\/strong>).\u00a0 So then, as far as now and for eternity, it is faith that counts.\u00a0 Of course, we know that if we are saved, if Christ lives within us, then good works will be produced because the Holy Spirit will change us to be and live more like Christ. If we don\u2019t have Godly evidence flowing from us, then though we claim faith, our faith is false.\u00a0 God within means evidence of God within flows from within to without (James 2:17, Matthew 7:20, Luke 6:45<\/strong>).\u00a0 What is behind the fruit that we bear but the love of God?\u00a0 It is recorded in Matthew 22:40 <\/strong>that Jesus said to us that \u201cAll the Law and the Prophets hang on these two things\u201d and the two things that Jesus was referring to is that we are to love God with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind and all our strength and to love our neighbors (all fellow human beings) as ourselves.\u00a0 So faith expressing itself through love shows that we have genuine faith in God.\u00a0 The works that we do not are not to gain us acceptance into the family of God, but rather show that we belong to it.<\/p>\n

Family, as God teaches us throughout scripture, love is the answer.\u00a0 First He loved us (1 John 4:19<\/strong>) and we responded to His love and loved Him back.\u00a0 We love Him through Jesus who is the expression of God\u2019s love to us.\u00a0 If we have His love within, then we love others, because that is His love.\u00a0 After all we know that Jesus died expressing the love of God to the whole world (John 3:1, 1 John 2:2<\/strong>).\u00a0 Let us set aside all grievances in honor and obedience to our God.\u00a0 And the world will be a better place.\u00a0 And we shall be blessed by God and exhibit fruit that we are His.\u00a0 Praise God!\u00a0 By the power of His love, we are His!\u00a0 May the awareness of the love and grace of God, and may His peace, be your constant companion.<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/strong>\u00a0– But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Galatians 5:6 \u2013\u00a0For in Christ Jesus\u00a0neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value.\u00a0The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. V6a \u2013 It is not whether we live up to the law, or whether we have not lived up to the law that has value.\u00a0 We know that by our deeds none of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[1155,2330,1841,1969,7,2029,1700,180,100,1019,13,106,101,94,17,97,138],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-christ-jesus","tag-circumcision","tag-ephesians","tag-galatians","tag-god","tag-grace-of-god","tag-james","tag-jesus-christ","tag-john","tag-lord","tag-love","tag-luke","tag-matthew","tag-micah","tag-psalm","tag-savior","tag-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}