# 52. 2017 Dev. Gal.4:4. Jesus in Our Hearts! Read vs. 1-7. The purpose of these devotionals is to draw closer to God and grow spiritually by applying His Word to our daily living. All passages are taken from the NIV.
Galatians 4:4 “God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba,[m] Father.”
As we think about Christmas and the New Year Gal.4:4 moves us into the New Year with great anticipation. Sons and daughters of God! Really? As we face the realities of this life both good and bad, this truth is difficult to get our head around.
Christmas, Jesus’ birth changes everything but our relationship with God in particular is changed. Jesus became like us, a perfect human, so that we may become like Him. By the power of the Holy Spirit in our hearts we are brothers and sisters of Jesus. However, being like Jesus is not all wine and roses. We share in Jesus’ birth, we are born again, we suffer with Him, Satan’s attacks, we are buried with Him, our baptism, we die with Him, die to ourselves, we are raised with Him, new life in the Spirit, and we share in His glory, the New Heaven and Earth.
Therefore, we go forward into the New Year with great expectations. “If God is with us who or what can be against us”? Those who believe in the child of Christmas, He is our Brother and Savior! Praise be to God!
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