Personal Devotions
Notes from Mark's personal Bible reading and meditation
With a goal to apply one truth from each day's reading to my life that day
Sep 26, 2022, 7:09 AM
Passage Read: Galatians 3-4
Meditation Verses: 3:23-26
Thought
Is Paul speaking to Jews or to people heavily influenced by Jews? Who was locked up under Law but the Jews? The Gentiles didn't grow up under the Law, it is something we likely wouldn't even know about until we came to Christ. It was the Jews who would be locked up under Law, but they might come to us Gentiles and teach us that we too need to submit to all the Law. So we Gentiles need to understand that the Jews were originally locked up under the Law until faith came, so that we too do not look to the Law for salvation.
Sep 25, 2022, 7:11 AM
Passage Read: Galatians 1-2
Meditation Verse: 2:20
Thought
If I died and now the life I live is Christ's, how can I think of my life as being my own in any way? Am I not all the more a slave of Jesus Christ? And if Christ loves me so much as to give His life to save me, do I need to fear at all anything He might ask me to do, anything He might do with me? Even if He wants to do something painful or scary with my life, do I have any say anymore? My life is done. I died with Christ, the life I'm now living is His life and I'm just along for the ride.