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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Galatians 6:1-18
This chapter shows us how to act: towards a brother who has been overtaken in a fault, without losing sight of our own responsibility (v. 1); towards those who are weighed down with burdens (v. 2); towards those "of the household of faith"; finally towards all men, by doing good to them (v. 10). At present we are sowing, but having in view the reaping "in due season." Now it is clear that the harvest will inevitably be one of the same nature as the seed sown. Only a madman could expect to gather wheat from the field where tares have been sown. The flesh always produces corrupt fruit, while the fruit of the Spirit grows to life eternal (v. 8; Galatians 5:22; cf. Hosea 8:7; Hosea 10:13). So then, now is the time for us to make the choice; later on all regrets will be useless.
The Christian has already been declared dead to the law (Galatians 2:19), and dead to the flesh (Galatians 5:24), He is recognised here as dead to the world, and the world dead to him (v. 14). Henceforth the world has no more rights over me than I have to the use of the world. Between it and me there is raised up an impassable barrier; it is the "cross of our Lord Jesus Christ", my deliverance and my glory. On the one side, "a new creature", on the other "nothing" which God recognises (v. 15). May we be of one mind with Him in principle and in practice.
