Hello friend, it's our turn to ask YOU questions today. Would you please answer in the comments below, or perhaps email us at sharon@sweetselah.org? We'd love your feedback:         What did you learn or gain from this study? Is there a topic or book of the Bible you wish we'd choose for our next online study? What are you reading today, now that our Galatians study is over? Thank you so much for joining us. May God meet you each day as you sit at His feet and study His Words to you. You are so dearly loved. And don't you forget it! Read more »

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Day Twenty-one. January 30. Galatians 6:11-18 Well here we are at the end of our 21-day challenge. Were you able to do this hard thing? If yes, then please write me at sharon@sweetselah.org. First ten to write and send a picture of your journal – just a page or two will suffice. I trust you. – will receive a very nice handmade gift as a celebration of your 21 sweet days with the Lord. All who write and send a picture will receive a gift, though. Every single one of you. 😊 We can’t think of anything worth celebrating more. If you haven’t been able to do 21 days in a row, don’t you dare start beating yourself up. This has been a study on […] Read more »

Day Twenty. January 29. Galatians 6:1-10 Oh, I do love these verses! Just LOOK at how Paul tells us to deal with someone who has been overcome with a sin. I see truth and love working hand in hand in Paul’s advice. Yes, we are to step in and help a fellow believer see that they’re doing wrong. But not as judgy self-righteous condemning people. No. We are to correct with gentleness and humility, fully aware that we are quite capable of sinning ourselves. And, in fact, we often do! We don’t look down on them. We come alongside them and help them up, reminding them of that beautiful grace we’ve been studying. Let’s be kind helpers to those in trouble. Let’s be careful, ourselves, […] Read more »

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Day Nineteen. January 28. Galatians 5:16-26 Today, Paul gets down to practical business, doesn’t he? He’s naming the sins. He’s calling out behaviors that stem from our selfish sinful bad selves and then he’s highlighting what should be coming out of people who are controlled by the Holy Spirit. Even after we are saved, we still have choices to make. God doesn’t turn us into some sort of automated “good person” with no will of her own. Nope. We still get to choose every day whether we will listen to the Spirit’s good direction or stomp off on our own to create mayhem and mess up the works. Let’s study the bad stuff first. Were you surprised at some of the behaviors that made the […] Read more »

Day Eighteen. January 27. Galatians 5:1-15 Here we are, reading Paul’s conclusion to the long and carefully worded argument against leaning on the law to save us. Paul has labored over this letter and repeated himself as he has shared using various examples and illustrations that we are only saved by the death of Christ on the cross who took our deserved punishment for our sins on Himself and then conquered death and rose again. That’s it. We have to stop trying to think we “earn” Heaven. We don’t. It’s sheer gift. We are not righteous in and of ourselves. Instead, we are clothed in righteousness through Jesus. In fact, as I read through this book, I underlined what I feel is the key verse […] Read more »

Day Seventeen. January 26. Galatians 4:21-31 Oh, this section of scripture is convicting to me! As I remember Sarah’s little solution to the problem of no children between her and Abraham, I see how logical it must have seemed to them. They were getting too old to have kids and let’s face it. It hadn’t been just years without a child, it had been decades. She’d given up all hope. And yet, she loved her husband, and he was kinda counting on a big, huge promise from God that they were going to be parents of a nation. Impossible, thinks Sarah. So when Sarah creates her own solution to the problem, dragging poor Hagar into the mix, Abraham goes along with it. I mean … […] Read more »

Day Sixteen. January 25. Galatians 4:8-20 We can call this section of Galatians 4, “Paul Gets Emotional.” Because he does! He’s agonizing over his beloved new brothers and sisters in Christ, wanting them to walk in freedom and so frustrated that they are listening to the wrong voices. He reminds them of his time with them, and how they loved him as he loved them. I wonder what Paul’s sickness was that seemed so odious that they might have rejected him? Some people think it might have been some kind of an eye disease, based on Paul’s comment in verse 15: “… I am sure you would have taken out your own eyes and given them to me if it had been possible.” Evidently, the […] Read more »