Contemplative Bible Reading

Galatians 1:7b (New Living Translation)

You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ.

The writer chides the Christians in Galatia. They are falling for a twisted version of the truth. So sad. What truth was twisted? The truth about Christ.

What was the truth about Christ? See a couple of sentences earlier: “Jesus gave his life for our sins, just as God our Father planned, in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live.”

Please note: the twisted truth was not about church buildings, what songs to sing, how to give money, how to spend money, or how to do all sorts of things that we often argue today. The truth twisters denied that Jesus died to rescue us. That’s a big deal; that’s a big thing.

Let us try to remember that the little things are the little things. Please God, help me in my unbelief.