Galatians 2

Paul speaks in verses 15, 16 and 21 to let us know that it is not our birth, following laws, etc that save us, but only Jesus Christ. Many times people condemn others because they are not born of the right bloodline, race, gender, country, etc. or because they don’t volunteer for the right church functions, attend the right classes, join the committees, serve the right ministries; but as Paul states in verse 21 “…for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”

These “good deeds” or how holy your parents were will not save you, only Jesus Christ can! I’m not saying, and neither is Paul, that we should not strive for good deeds and help to heal the world; just simply, don’t rely on those for salvation. When you begin to think that God loves you more than others because you do more things for Him, then you are in a sad, dangerous state. Give, work, volunteer, teach out of the love for Jesus and with a happy heart, not to “work for salvation”, but out of gratitude for salvation, achieved through Christ Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus for dying on the cross for my sins, thank you for your salvation obtainable only through You. Please help me to remember that you require us to love one another, help and further Your Great Commission, but that deeds alone do not save me and they don’t make me “more Holy”, they show that I am a servant of the One and Only God!