Galatians 4:8-11
8 But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. 9 But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years. 11 I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.
8 But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. 9 But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years. 11 I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.
Before we are regenerated, before we know God personally and intimately through Jesus Christ, we serve the idols of false gods all around us such as self-help, intellectualism, meditation, and even other religious systems and gods. But when we are known by the God of all and thus also know Him afterwards, we should not be again relying on those empty things we were pulled away from by the Maker of all things. We are set free from slavery of our souls in those things which give no honor or glory to the only God, so how can we dig up these dead thing when we have life that is unending? Paul labored to teach these in Galatia, and by these same words labors for us by God’s hand and Spirit; let it not be in vain for us either.
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