Scripture Union Daily Guide Wednesday 14th May 2025 Devotional Message
Today’s Daily Guide 14 May 2025 Reading By Scripture Union
TOPIC: Be Warned!
OPENING PRAYER: As I read your word O Lord, grant me an insight and grace to do your will in Jesus name.
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: Galatians 6:11-18
11 See with what large letters I have written to you with my own hand! 12 As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, these would compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. 13 For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by [a]whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
17 From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
QUESTION FOR MEDITATION:
► Q7: What truth is God revealing to me in this passage?
Scripture Union Daily Guide Wednesday 14th May 2025 Outline
In conclusion, Paul goes back to the issue of circumcision that prompted him to write this letter to the Galatians. He emphasises that by insisting that the Galatians observe the law and go through circumcision, the Judaizers were trying to make a good impression for themselves. However, they were only being hypocritical since they themselves were not even succeeding in obeying the law (Galatians 6:12-13).
By their insistence, they were downplaying the importance of the cross of Christ, which Paul preached was the only thing worth boasting about (Galatians 6:14). Our focus should never be on the externals – circumcision or uncircumcision. Either is not the issue. “What counts is a new creation”, living life by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ who fulfilled the demands of the law on the cross (Galatians 6:15).
“The marks of Jesus Christ” (Galatians 6:17) is the brand of Christ’s ownership, the scars left on Paul by incessant beatings, prison chains, etc. (see 2 Corinthians 11:23-25). Paul is Christ’s slave and wholly owned by Him. But to return to the slavery of circumcision and legalism, never!
And So:
I will never, never, go back to the world.
* Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
Closing Prayer:
Thank you, dear Father, for making me a new creature through the death of Christ, my Saviour.
One Year Bible Reading Guide:
1 Samuel 22-23, Matthew 10
One Year Bible Reading Guide, Hard Copy Version:
Psalms 32, Psalms 51, Psalms 86, Psalms 122
NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN
Wed May 14, 2025
PRAYER FOCUS
CHRISTIAN BRETHREN IN THE NORTHERN NIGERIA AND ALL THE WOUNDED
…Pray for one another that you will be healed James 5:16
THANK GOD FOR:
* His sustaining grace upon our brethren in the North. • Courageous spirit among our brethren in the north
PRAY FOR:
* God’s soothing hand upon all the wounded. • God will heal all their emotional, psychospiritual and physical wound. • Spirit courage upon them. • An end to the killing of Christians in the north and the nation.
Scripture Union is an international, interdenominational, evangelical Christian organization. It was founded in 1867, and works in partnership with individuals and churches across the world. The organization’s stated aim is to use the Bible to inspire children, young people and adults to know God. (Scripture Union Daily Guide 14 May 2025)