Galatians 4:17-20
October 30, 2005
4:17 They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly. 4:18 However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you. 4:19 My children–I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you! 4:20 I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, because I am perplexed about you.
The thought that the Galatian Christians were turning from what Paul had taught them to false teaching was almost more than he could stand. God had once responded to Paul’s “birth pains” by causing Christ to be formed in them, and now it seems that it will have to be done all over again.
It is in the nature of Christian life for Christian teachers and preachers to sometimes agonize over the spiritual progress of their flock, but the results of their labors are surely in God’s hands alone. -sdg-
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