When our church studied Galatians several years ago, I had an image stick in my head that helped me understand the overall message of the book and I'd like to share it with others.
Imagine that our good work as Christians on earth is an amusement park. "Woohoo, I'm riding the tilt-a-whirl (insert Christian good work here)." Or, "I just paid for Johnny to ride the Ferris wheel (insert mission trip to this country or charity here)." Not that we are boasting about it, but that we are being what we would call obedient and following the rules of the amusement park. After all, isn't that what they are for? Ride the rides, eat the food and enjoy the time.
But the catch to this amusement park is that the only people that can enter the park are those that have blue hair. Obviously we are not born with blue hair, so something has to be done in order for us enter the park.
Those of us that are called by God into His kingdom through a saving faith in Jesus Christ our Lord, upon acceptance of this gift will automatically have our hair turn blue, thus gaining entrance. But not only does our hair turn blue--from that point on our heads will continue to grow blue hair.
Those that don't understand the gospel of Jesus Christ but know that they should be good, want to do good works and/or be a good person end up going to the Blue-Hair-Dying Shop where they dye their hair in order to gain entrance. They still can enjoy the benefits of the park while on Earth, but they are fakers, and it is often hard for us amusement park enthusiasts to tell the difference between the two.
Some people don't care about amusement parks and have no interest in having Blue Hair.
And some of us that have the imputed Blue-Hair follicles still go to the Blue-Hair-Dying Shop to dye our hair blue-when it is already Blue. Just stop that, ok? We already have Blue Hair!
And that's my summary of Galatians.
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