Galatians 3-4

A message of Galatians is directed at a conflict that rages within everyone that turns their life over to Trusting Christ,&becoming a Follower of Christ.When we trust Christ to be our Savior & Lord, There begins a struggle within us that is analogous to an event that Galatians4:28 refers to n Genesis29:1 when Isaac(“the child of promise” that was God’s plan for Abraham) is “mocked”/laughed at/made fun of/ridiculed by Hagar(mother of Ismael the child resulting from Abraham not waiting on God’s plan,& Abraham succumbing to different solution to fulfill his desire for a child/different from God’s plan)The analogy is that we were born into sin that was spawned by a temptation from the devil(the serpent that tempted Eve)that would have an allure that would lure Adam & Eve away from God’s Word and His Promises.We are born with this same inherent weakness in us that can be overwhelming sensitive/responsive to temptations that possess alluring properties which lure us away from God’s Promises and His Word!The Promises of God’s Awesome Love have been displayed for us from the absolute beginning of all time(Romans1:20,”For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”),yet - we have this THING inside us,this THING that is part of our “DNA” we have inherited throughout all generations from Adam&Eve,that is disastrously susceptible to thoughts/things/ideas/beliefs which possess an allure that plucks at the fiber/strings of our being to lure us away from “God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power”(His Omnipotence/His Omniscience/His Omnipresence) “and divine nature”(His Awesome Love/His Awesome Grace/His Awesome Love/His Righteousness/His Awesome Goodness,His Great Desire for our GOOD,....).This THING inside us has tentacles running through our life rooted in the “desire organ” of our mind/heart/life that will never let us go....unless we turn to Christ to SAVE US from their death-grip.By turning our lives over to Christ/trusting in Christ we become sons&daughters of God(Galatians3:26,”You r all sons&daughters of God through faith in Christ Jesus”)and we become heirs to the promises in God’s Word(Galatians3:29,”If you belong to Christ,then you are Abraham’s seed,and heirs according to the promise.”).This means that our identity is changed and effectively our “DNA” is changed so that the tentacles above are no longer a part of our Iives...so their is no longer the death grip on our lives that once existed->we are no longer slaves to sin because of the tentacles connected to the “desire organ” of our mind/heart/life”.This means that our “desire organ” has voids left behind when these tentacles are removed,needing to be healed up/filled up with healthy things where once there were tentacles connected that have been excised from our lives.But,we still have these voids within us that are dangerously susceptible to the allure that once had a grip on us via the tentacles....we can still be tempted.This is why we must reckon temptations for what they are and even remember the ultimate pain they cause/bring into our lives...and be encouraged away from temptations by the freedom we have been given by our DNA change that has removed the tentacles from our life(Galatians4:8-9 says,”Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.But now that you know God—or rather are known by God—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces?Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?”).Even with the tentacles removed from our lives,we can allow ourselves to succumb to temptations that lure us away from our freedom from them in Christ.These voids in our “desire organ” that are not backfilled with healthy desires can become pockets of the same old evil desires once connected to the excised tentacles -James1:13-15,”When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone.But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death”).So,if we leave these voids in our “desire organ” unattended,they will lure us back into sin that makes a believer deathly sick...sometimes we can be unaware of this sickness that hardens our heart and breeds a virus of pride and arrogance in us.Just as a deathly ill patient n a hospital is fed nutrients and “medicinals” to heal them up...the same must happen in our lives to properly heal up the voids in our “desire organ”.And then just as that previously deathly ill patient must resist going back to the “old ways” that made that patient deathly ill...so we must resist the “old ways” and replace them with NEW WAYS,i.e.,the “NUTRITENTS &MEDICINAL” provided for us by God our Father in Heaven via His Word,His Spirit,Prayer,His Ways,&His people...& turn away from the voids not healed up yet(evil desires),trusting that each time we turn away from these evil desires,we allow a little more healing to occur in our mind/heart/life where the dangerous voids still exist.Dear Lord,I pray for You to make me aware of the dangerous voids in my life...I know many of them...help me to identify them as the death virus they represent,& turn away from them instead of succumbing to them.May my mind/heart/life be strongly drawn into Your Word;Prayer;&Godly counsel/wisdom so the perilous unhealed voids in my life are “backfilled” with the true desires that You only know are the BEST for me,& the only ones that can truly heal me forever.