Galatians 3:15-22; Psalm 60

Galatians 3:15-22
The Judaizers wanted to bring Christianity under the law of Moses, but Paul is teaching here that the promise of a Savior goes all the way back to Abraham who lived long before Moses. And so the law did not do away with the promise or change it in any way. The promise of a Savior is just that, a promise, and God will never break His promises.

OK, so what was the purpose of the law? v. 19 tells us that "it was given alongside the promise to show people their sins." But it was designed to last only until the coming of the promised Child (Jesus). As we have seen we could never be made right with God by keeping the law (or any other set of rules for that matter) which we could not keep anyway. "So we receive God's promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ." v. 22

Psalm 60
Apparently, Israel was in big trouble here. Perhaps they had not been faithful to the Lord, and He had allowed her enemies to defeat them. The situation seemed utterly hopeless, when David cried out to the Lord, "Now rescue your beloved people. Answer and save us by your power." Then he is encouraged by remembering God's promises. He ends the psalm with these words, "Oh, please help us against our enemies, for all human help is useless. With God's help we will do mighty things, for he will trample down our foes." vv. 11-12

Sometimes things in our lives seem more out of our control that at other times, but in reality God is the only one who is truly in control. All human help is indeed useless unless God Himself is guiding us. I have thought a lot about what we saw in Psalm 59:  pray, trust, sing. We must continue to pray, trust God, and praise Him because He truly is the only One who knows everything and has the power to change things, even to do mighty things!