“...how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Gal.4:9
ONE OF MY EARLIEST MENTORS
I was taught as a novice that, “A text taken out of context is a pretext.” This is true, if it is done to deceive or to prove one’s personal preference. But it is not so, if you are applying the scriptures in a practical way to
“instruct in righteousness.” The latter is our intent.
AN OSWALD CHAMBERS SAYING
One of my favorite axioms by this godly man is, “Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.”
PAUL’S SEARCHING QUESTION
Why do you [we], who know the Lord, like the Jews, who went back to a legalistic system, return to, not only a weak way of life, but one that doesn’t enrich but leaves us begging for the blessings we once experienced.
RETURNING TO PRISON AND OUR CHAINS
Something is drastically wrong with a free man or woman who desires to be in bondage again once liberated. The book of Hebrews is all about those who desired to “go back,” rather than “go on.” Every child of God needs to keep before them the words of the gospel song, “It’s too late now to turn back...there’s nothing to turn back to.”
“Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go?
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