Through Faith

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. ~ Galatians 3:26-27

A child of God.  A term once reserved for the Jewish people only in the Old Testament, we now all have the opportunity to be adopted into Christ’s family.  Most of the Old Testament is the story of the Israelites delivered, then their constant battles of complaining and disobedience, back to God disciplining them, and the people coming back into obedience.  The matter of fact is that there were so many laws under the Mosaic Law, hundreds in fact, that there is no way the people could have kept from sinning on their own.  After all, they were only human.  So God sent down His one and only son to be sacrificed as the final payment for all our sins.  God in human flesh, the only perfect, sinless and blameless human - Jesus Christ, walked and taught a new way to live here on earth and became the sinless and perfect sacrifice to wear all our sins so that we could live in freedom from the law and be reconciled back to our Creator.  There is no way anyone could have lived a blameless life after the fall of man in Genesis and so the only way to be truly reconciled to God, in order for the bridge to be gapped, God made a plan.  Now to everyone who believes that Jesus Christ died and rose again for them and accepts that by faith is called a child of God.  Co-heirs to Jesus Christ.  Free from the threat of being left to our own sinful nature we can have confidence in our forgiveness.  To all who have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior, we have been clothed in His righteousness and the Holy Spirit has entered our beings to live a life of transformation.  The new believer puts on new “clothes” and must be intentional about changing their attitudes, heart and life.  God will bless them and welcome them back to Him with open arms.  Let us be transformed by the renewing of our minds and wear our new clothes joyfully. ~ Amen