Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Galatians 3:1-5
by: Trisha Gerstel.
In “My Utmost for His Highest,” Oswald Chambers, an early-twentieth-century evangelist and teacher, stated, “The great enemy to the Lord Jesus Christ in the present day is the conception of practical work that has not come from the New Testament, but from the Systems of the world [with] no private life with God” (accessed online at utmost.org). In these words, I find an important reminder: I accomplish nothing apart from God’s grace. I may “do” many things, but nothing—no act of true love, and certainly not my own salvation and righteousness—is accomplished apart from His Spirit. When we remember this, we remain humble before the Lord as well as others.