Galatians 5:4 4You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.
What is the grace of God? Simply put, the grace of God is God blessing,
healing and delivering you because of Jesus. The grace of God is
His unearned, unmerited and undeserved favor toward you simply
because of Jesus’ finished work at the cross.
Because God’s grace is based on Jesus’ work and not yours, the only way you
fall from this grace is by believing that you can earn, merit and deserve it through
your obedience and good works.
For example, you fall from grace when you say, “God has to answer my prayer
because I have prayed long enough.” You also fall from grace when you think that
because you are serving in church or you have kicked a bad habit, God is pleased
with you and He has to bless you.
When you think that it is by your efforts and obedience that you receive God’s
blessings, you become like the Pharisees. They believed that their law-keeping
justified them and ensured that God would bless them. But the truth is that when
you believe like them, “you have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt
to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace”. This means that you are cut
off from Christ, who is your salvation, Redeemer, healer and provider. Christ has
become of no effect to you!
My friend, surely you would want Christ to be of effect to you. People to
whom Christ is of effect receive from Him the miracle they need. When He is of
effect to them, He is their healer and they get healed. He is their wisdom and they
are wise before man. He is their good success and they experience good success
in all that they do.
Beloved, for Christ to always be of effect to you and to never nullify the grace
of God operating in your life, just remember and believe that it is because of
Christ and His finished work — His blood, His stripes, His death, His obedience
— that you are justified, healed and blessed!
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