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Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Devotional: August 3rd

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Galatians 4:1-18

So God had given something much more than the law: unconditional promises. They proceeded from His love and from His joy in blessing the Gentile nations as much as the Jews. To despise such a gift is to despise His love. For example, pretending to be paying for a present which you receive is something which will offend the giver. How the heart of God is grieved, in particular, to see so many Christians forgetting the liberty of the Spirit and substituting for it mean and irksome practices. What does all that prove? That these children of God have a very poor knowledge of their heavenly Father. It is understandable that an unconverted man is satisfied with "weak and beggarly elements" because he has nothing better. V. 9 tells us, "But now, after that ye have known God" and are known of Him (1 Corinthians 8:3), let us not indulge in or tolerate anything unworthy of Him. Let us have full confidence in His love.

In v. 12 the apostle interrupts his exposition to speak to the hearts of his beloved Galatians. He knows how to stir up the memory of their kindness and devotion to him. Alas, affections which grow cold through absence are feeble affections. Convictions which can be weakened as soon as God’s servant departs are feeble convictions. How is it with our Christian love? And how is it with our faith?

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