We need to come very close to Him in these days and bring reality into our faith. God does discipline His children. And if you don’t want it to hurt, the thing to do is to get close to Him. It won’t hurt nearly as badly. You remember He says that He was the vine, we’re the branches, and that the Father was going to prune the branches. And that hurts, you know, to be trimmed off like that. But the Father is never so close to the vine and the branches as when He’s trimming them. That’s wonderful. May I say, we need to get close to Him.
Get ready to fight the good fight against legalism in Galatians. When this letter was written, it defended the gospel of Christ from people who wanted to reduce it to rules. Not surprising, Galatians has provided the backbone for several great spiritual revivals around the world. Freedom, we learn, is a serious fight. Allow grace to revolutionize your own life through these seven lessons from Dr. J. Vernon McGee.