Galatians 6:11
11 Ye see [eido] how large [pelikos] a letter [gramma] I have
written [grapho] unto you [humin] with mine own [emos] hand [cheir]. KJV-Interlinear
11 See with what large letters I
am writing to you with my own hand. NASB
Paul wrote an important letter to the Galatians,
and to those who prefer to hide behind noble sounding remarks, but in effect
doing nothing, the warning of their self-imposed failure is clear, but only if
they take the time to listen, or in our case to read, and to learn of their
error and mis-direction.
The phrase for, large letter, ‘pelikos,’ does not
refer to the size of the letters written, nor the length of the epistle, for at
this point it is not yet finished. It
does refer to the context of the subject at hand, which is an extremely
important subject, because it is the one subject in which most people are led
to failure in life.
Large here means important or great as in of great
importance.
Works verses faith, is the subject.
Works refers to the one thing that God has excluded
from the spiritual life. Namely your attitude as it remains separate and apart
from Gods design for the spiritual life.
And it is very important because people hide behind
works in many ways. They try to pursue
their spiritual life on their own terms, but also, they avoid their spiritual responsibilities
by coming up with all manner of excuses, generally veiled in cute or noble
sounding phrases, followed by doing nothing.
And this is the sad mistake that people make.
God does not need anyones effort in the divine
plan. Gods plan for history would, and
will, come to its proper conclusion even if no one did anything as God mandates.
But what people miss, is that God gives everyone an
opportunity to participate in the spiritual plan, by incorporating bonafide spiritual
activities within their spiritual life.
Whether you do or not, is your business and
decision, but to ignore such an opportunity, means you lose out on the vast
benefits that come with obedience to His will.
Remember that opportunity comes only during this
life. Once you leave this world, those opportunity doors close, and you go to
heaven only with whatever spiritual resources you did comply with, assuming
that there are any.
Paul has covered several topics within this
subject, from circumcision to financial support. And we have covered them all in detail, in
these six chapters.
But the last word remains with you. You have either
learned something, namely spiritual production through faith, or you have
ignored it in order to remain with your pursuit of personal views in order to
avoid what God expects of you. And, realize
that God expects nothing from you, that He has not already made provision for
in some way.
So, you can work for your spiritual brownie points,
you can avoid your own personal responsibilities and let someone else carry the
load, you can invent some rather cute excuses to justify your way out of the
spiritual mandates placed on us all, or …
You can get with a legitimate daily study, learn a
thing or two, and sooner or later get your life in order.
To ignore what God says, is a total waste of ones
life. So why would anyone live their
whole life and waste it, when compliance with all of the spiritual requirements
is so easy?
