Daily Word

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? Galatians 4:8-9. Our knowledge of God is not the result of our own inquiry, but the sovereign work of the one who opened our understanding. Paul likens the bondage of ceremonial legalism to the bondage of pagan superstition. To accept circumcision as necessary for salvation is to turn back from the liberty of Grace to the bondage of the world whether these times be Jewish or Gentile. Before their conversion, the Galatians were subject to the “principles” of a pagan world; its false gods, its astrology, its season rituals. What is it in your life you continue to turn back to and kept in bondage of?