Something else.

“I am shocked that you are turning away so soon from God, who called you to himself through the loving mercy of Christ. You are following a different way that pretends to be the Good News but is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ.”  (Galatians 1:6-7, NLT)

   We at times purchase substitutes, replacements for the original items and many times find the products inferior, ill- fitting or off-tasting.  We at times follow leaders and systems, believing a slogan or a philosophy only to discover the slogan was basically  empty and the philosophy shallow, void of real substance.  We can be consumed with codes for living and find ourselves frustrated and unfulfilled by the unending legalistic rules and the lack of freedom or failures in new pathway. In reality, the something else that we have chosen is something else from the original.

     There are many that would change “The Gospel” for something else. There are many that would abuse the grace we have been given to follow patterns of living inferior to the ways of God. There are many that would make the "Gospel" into a system of materialistic benefits expecting blessings in earthy things that will simply pass away.  There are many that would make the Gospel into a legalistic code of rules, voiding the finished work of Christ in securing our salvation.  There are many that follow slogans, philosophies and even new false angelic leaders only to find the leaders are charlatans, the slogans empty and the philosophies of little substance.  There are many seemingly attractive alternative myths that we see and hear but they are really fueled by our own passions (2 Timothy 4:3-4).

     The truth remains … something else from the “Gospel” is something else.  There is a grace that saves us and sustains us, there is a peace that reigns over us, there is a deliverance that delivers us and glory that shines over us and it is the “Good News.” Jesus Christ is the "Good News", He is the truth, the hope, the grace, the peace, the deliverance and the glory of the God’s saving love for His children.  Nothing else can do what Jesus Christ does and nothing else is what Jesus Christ is. Everything else, is something else other than God’s indescribable gift to us in Jesus Christ.

“May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.  Jesus gave his life for our sins, just as God our Father planned, in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live. All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.” (Galatians 1:3-5, NLT)

Suggested Daily Reading ... Galatians 1