Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.
February 13, 2006
It strikes me, sitting here in Chick-fil-A, that what Paul says in Galatians is the very same reasoning that Paul agonized over after he was saved and slugging away as he rearranged his mind in Arabia to accept and make room for salvation by grace rather than by works. Since men must understand this, God provided the issues to be laid out for us by Paul, who received it from Jesus directly. We benefit from Paul's struggle and from the inspiration by the Holy Spirit, resulting in ink through the pen to the page.
It is fitting in the matter of grace versus works that God would assign the paper to be written by a man who had struggled greatly with the issue first from the wrong side and who had then found out that he was wrong. So it became a matter, not of theology only, but one of right or wrong first and [then] of theology.
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