Monday, March 5, 2012

Galatians 6:3

Monday 3/5/12

Galatians 6:3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Interpretation:
     When we get saved, the God of the universe comes into our hearts at that very moment. Right at the moment of salvation, we have all of God that anyone can have, for it says in Ephesians 1:3 that God “…has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ…” and in Psalm 37:10 that “…those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.” So the moment we get saved, God doesn’t just give us a little bit of Himself and then waits to give us the rest. No, not at all, for that would definitely be withholding a good spiritual blessing from His kids.
     So the question becomes, “Why then do we not see God in our lives as much as we should if we have all of Him. Perhaps John the Baptist said it best when he, speaking of Jesus in John 3:30 says, “He must increase, but I must decrease.” That’s the answer. When we get saved, we still have ourselves – our flesh – that dwells in us. We have all of God in our hearts, but the rest of our Christian life here on this earth becomes a daily lesson of learning how to decrease as we let God increase in our lives.
     So now we come to this verse. When we think we are something, we are putting value on our flesh and are implying that we have something we can offer God. But this verse says that this is not the case for we are nothing. No wonder Paul says that the person who thinks this way is deceived. So when we get prideful and think that we have something to offer God, we need to follow John’s example and ask God to take away our pride and help us decrease as He increases in our lives.

Application:
     I’ll spend an extra thirty minutes today in prayer and God’s Word seeking God so that I can allow Him to increase in my life.

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