Written by Ken Boa, a contemporary author and founder of Reflections Ministry.
There is a natural human tendency to suppose that we can or must earn God’s approval, acceptance, love, or forgiveness through our own effort and achievement. It is not uncommon, even for those who understand that salvation is a gift of God’s grace through faith in Christ Jesus, to slip into the error of thinking that spiritual growth is primarily a matter of human effort and merit. Galatians corrects this error by stressing that the same principle that brings about our justification (grace through faith) also brings about our sanctification. When we walk by the Spirit, we are empowered to bear the spiritual fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
For we through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness. [Galatians 5:5]
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