Our Lighted Path

Like some other books of the Bible, Paul's message to the churches at Galatia isn't as simple as it may seem, and the book of Galatians isn't the only complicated message from Paul's ministry. For example, one verse that always worried me a little, in 1 Corinthians, is "meat is for the belly, and the belly for meat." I had to grow a little, through Bible study, and through trusting in the Lord for a long time, to finally re-read Galatians, and part of 1 Corinthians, to understand what Paul was ranting about with "meat is for the belly, and the belly for meats; but god shall destroy both it and them." That verse has to be read in context of knowing the Bible, knowing the Spirit, and with the understanding that not every, every word that was spoken and written by ministers like Paul, is in the Bible, the Bible being notes and translations. Because I know Jesus through His word, with all my heart, I wondered why Paul, an apostle w...

Sometimes, the fruit of salvation in Jesus is immediate. Some people get saved from hell and immediately know their lives are forever changed for good. Some people get saved and know they're free of their past sins, and that the New Testament is their forever friend. That way of salvation sometimes comes to heart little by little: a Bible-study group here, a church service there, a talk with a pastor, an eye-opening sermon, someone's heart-felt prayer. The Christian experience doesn't reach everyone in quite the same way always. Everyone's testimony is different, especially for those bound in prisons and in oppressive nations . But how on earth is any prisoner finding or holding to life in Christ? After all, Paul says, in Galatians 2:21, "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." How does anyone find and hold to faith in Jesus when living under harshness of law? Isn't the Bible...