Grasping Jesus

Saturday, August 18, 2018

One of many Christians’ favorite Scripture passages is Paul’s description of the life of the believer in Galatians 4:1-7. In verse 6, God is address as “Abba, Father” which offers a comforting image of God in the context of an earthly father—providing for our needs and protecting us. For the early stages or infancy of the Christian faith, we are dependent on that image of God as it frightens us to stand, walk, and talk the life of a believer. We aren’t capable of understanding that we are justified only because God is good but we are not. The infant Christian is often like a child, me-centered and erroneously considering the self as basically good and/or better than others in the eyes of God.

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