Vv. 10,11 Anyone can be justified through faith, not through the law. Anyone who practices the law to be saved will be under an inescapable curse because the law requires perfection and sinful man can never become perfect. But God has prepared the way for people to be saved by faith. We can now be justified by our faith in God and live each day by faith. Realize that there is not a single moment when you can ask for God’s grace based on your own power or ability. We must approach God wholly depending and trusting the cross of Jesus Christ.
Vv. 13,14 God had Christ redeem the doomed sinners from the curse of the law (Deut. 27:26). He bound up his son on the cursed tree to save us from the miserable curse ? placed on us as a result of having never fulfilled the requirements of the law. Christ, being without sin, accepted the death of the cursed to remove all the curses and sins of my life. Meditate on his wonderful grace, of giving me freedom while taking upon himself the punishment of the curse. Let’s proclaim daily this freedom he has given so that we do not become enslaved to sin again.
Vv. 15-17 God faithfully kept his promise to Abraham. We cannot break or change promises made with man if it is documented and legally validated. God is a faithful God. It does not take an external force to make him keep his promises ? his faithfulness prohibits him from breaking his promises. Even after ten, twenty, or several thousand years, God still keeps and carries out the promises made with us though we may feel lost in difficult situations.
Let me not waver in firmly holding onto the promise of salvation in Christ.
