Galatians 3:11-12 NLT

So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. 

For the Scriptures say, 

"It is through faith that a righteous person has life."

This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, "It is through obeying the law that a person has life."

Galatians 3:11-12 NLT

Why is this important for us today?

Surely we're not like the Galatians thinking life comes from completing the requirements of the law?

There are parts of us that do though right? We judge others and we definitely judge ourselves.

My inner critic seems to enjoy telling me I'm not doing enough, not doing what "they" are doing, and as a result I'm not good enough, not enough.

And the answer is do more, be better.

Paul says life, "zao", to be fully alive comes not from the law, but from faith. 

This fully aliveness comes from knowing we are Beloved, accepted, wanted, in all our humanness, and that comes from faith in Jesus, that he is who he said he is, and his entering The Story was an act of love towards us, as we are. 

Not to leave us as we are, but to invite us to step towards Him, where we can experience fully aliveness (as best we can in this side of resurrection).

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