Holy Discontent - Take Action
by Kendrick Vinar
Galatians - Looking Back (Jeremy Gwaltney)
Often we don’t realize how far we’ve come unless we take a pause to look back at the journey we’ve been on. My year has certainly been this way… I’ve been constantly looking at my “to do” list and often forget to look back at the “done.” When I do… “wow” is all I can say… I am amazed at all God has done for me.
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Galatians 6:11-18 (Lizzie Held)
As a recent high school graduate, with plans to attend college at UNC Chapel Hill, I had some understanding that in a few months I would begin a new chapter of my life. But as I sat in the auditorium of the New Attitude 2006 conference, listening to C.J. Mahaney preach on Isaiah 53, I did not realize that God was radically changing my life’s course. His sermon impacted me like no other message I had heard up to that point. In tears, I turned to my dad beside me and said, “I never knew.” Of course, growing up in a Christian home, attending a Christian school, being active in a Biblical church, I did know—I had heard the gospel from a young age and had put my faith in Jesus Christ as a child. However, for the first time, the Holy Spirit was opening my eyes to behold Christ crucified: “wounded for [my] transgressions…crushed for [my] iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought [me] peace, and with his stripes [I am] healed” (Isaiah 53:5). God had used the Word to lead me to the foot of the cross and was showing me “the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness towards [me] in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:7) like never before.
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Galatians 6:11-18 (Jeff Terrell)
In Galatians 6:12, Paul reveals the motives of the Judaizers. He says that they “desire to make a good showing in the flesh…that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.” I imagine a spectrum here. At one end stand the Judaizers, desiring to “make a good showing in the flesh”, that people will think highly of them. At the other end of the spectrum stands Paul, willing to “suffer persecution for the cross of Christ”, if only the pure Gospel will be known.
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Galatians 6:6-10 (Janelle Wall)
I have always thought of verse 6 as being separate from verses 7-10, but now I see that it is all tied together.
It seems to me that if we are regularly being taught by anyone–whether in church, through the media, or even by mail–we should at least contribute to their support.
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Galatians 6:6-10 (Sir Robert Burbridge)
Two words really stand out to me in this passage of Galatians: “all” (”all good things”, v6) and “especially” (”especially to those”, v10). It’s funny, but in one way of looking at things, Paul’s guidance here wouldn’t have lost much without these two extras. If he had just said, “Share good things with the one who teaches” and “let us do good to all people.” we wouldn’t be shocked at any glaring omissions. We would agree heartily that teachers should have encouragement and that we should treat everyone with respect and grace.
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