Galatians 1:3. “Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ.”
GRACE AND PEACE. Whether grace for the Greeks or peace for the Jews; it should be both for the lot of us now.
“Charis” – the gift, we must never sight of lose; and “shalom” to all men we now owe.
From God the Father, the gift He has given, to minister to His own people His truth.
The Lord Jesus Himself has given us those, who live in the Body now move.
As gifts in themselves to minister grace to the hearers and speakers alike.
The role these gifts fill, whether people or skills, our Father and our Savior will make.
Grace God now offers, and peace right along, but from grace the people had turned.
But God in His love, offers grace once again; the grace that for law they now spurned.
O foolish Galatians, do you not understand, the law you cannot hope to keep;
To break one of them is to break one and all, too late then for grace you will seek.
The Gospel was clear when it was preached in Galatia, salvation is complete without works.
Do not settle down then, for the frail works of men, to Christ on the cross you must look.
Now for the last time, will you take what God offers, Grace is your last only hope.
Grace came down from above, when the Savior with love, the form of a man then He took.
He became poor for our sake, that His grace we might know when His life on the cross He then gave.
So, for us now, as the Galatians back then, it’s by grace alone that we are saved.
When God gives us grace, do not ignore it; this day of salvation we’re in;
Is when God by His grace, to each one who calls, will receive full salvation from sin.
“Thank You, O Father, for the grace and peace You give freely. I have tasted them and know the blessedness of this great salvation. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”