JOHN SHIRK – Today’s Faith-Building Verses are Galatians 4:4 and 5.

“But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.”

If we live by the law, we will die by the law. The law can show us the difference between what is good and what is evil. The law also exposes where we have fallen short of God’s glory by our sins. The law is powerless to save us from our shortcomings. But where the law fails to save us, the grace of Jesus is sufficient for our greatest need. He is able to set us free from the penalty of the law and make us right with God.

Romans 3:21 says “Now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.”

These Faith-Building Verses inspire us to stop trusting in our good deeds to save us and start trusting in Jesus in the Year of Relationship.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com