Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Bewitched

You foolish [Elizabeth]! Who has bewitched you?
Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. I would like to learn just one thing from you:

Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard?
Are you so foolish?
After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?
Have you suffered so much for nothing--if it really was for nothing?
Does God give you His Spirit and work miracles among you because observe the law, or because you believe what you heard?


-Galatians 3:1-5

Foolishness is attaining my goal(s) by human effort, by observing the law, by doing things 'just right'.

Wisdom is believing what I've heard--that Jesus was crucified--and receiving the Spirit and miracles as a gift.

My foolishness is human effort, singularly exercised.

His wisdom is supernatural power and works something out of suffering's nothing.

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