Illnesses are easy to catch.
There’s an old saw about visiting the hospital. If we’re well, we don’t need to go there, and if we’re sick, it’s the worst possible place for us to be.
People who are sick are the ones who visit hospitals, and if we’re not, then we’re taking a giant risk of catching an infection from the imperfection of disease and impending death floating throughout the corridors.
No one wants to catch death. Even doctors scrub their hands and wear protective masks to filter out the germs.
A hospital is like the world. If we wander the hallways carelessly, we may well catch the imperfection of sin. Once we have it, we can wash it off, as we do with deadly germs, or we can allow it to become an infection, and it just might kill us.
Galatians 3:1-29 speaks to the group of people who viewed the crucifixion of Jesus. On the cross, they saw how easily the flesh was destroyed, and in Jesus’ triumphant return, they were given the example of Christ’s spirit as the only perfection we can achieve.
Yet, they became convinced earthly regulations could bring about the perfection of the Christ.
Verses 11-12 in this passage tells us “the righteous shall live by faith, but the law is not of faith.”
Rules and regulations are there to enable the weak and untaught to abide by the love of the Father. However, if we do not move past the rules and regulations into the love espoused by the life of Jesus, then we have failed at our charge, and we are as sounding brass, having the image of Christ, but none of the substance thereof. We have succumbed to the imperfection of the world. It has infected us, and we are filled with the putridness of our infection of impending death.
It’s by faith that we wash away the imperfection of the world. Let’s lather up and let it all slip away.
Faith purifies us better than Neosporin, Ivory, or the strongest Clorox out there.
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