Because You Believe

"Well then, does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?" (Galatians 3:5 - New Revised Standard Version)

God had given the Galatians gifts of the Spirit. The Spirit’s power had been manifested among them. God had blessed them. Why? He had not done it because of their works of the law, because these Gentile believers had never obeyed the law. God had blessed them because of their faith.

If God, in the past, had blessed them for their faith, what made the Galatians think that they needed to obey the law for Him to bless them in the future? This made no sense. If God gives the greatest gift, salvation, by grace through faith, will He give lesser gifts only because of obedience to the law? This makes no sense.

The Galatians seemed to have forgotten that all that they had in Christ came through faith. Paul reminds them and us. We are to walk by faith, not by sight. We are to live by the power of the Spirit, not by the strength of the flesh. We are to live in the liberty of Grace, not the bondage of the law.