“I am fearful for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been wasted.” (v. 11)

I don’t know who it is or who it was, but…

…someone somewhere told you the Good News of the Gospel.

Maybe they wrote that book or sang that song. Maybe they led that class or preached that message. Maybe they answered your questions and told their story and invested in you personally.

Someone somewhere introduced you to the love, freedom, and forgiveness that is only found in Christ, by grace through faith.

Which brings us to a question, in the light of Paul and the Galatians:

Are you living—are you believing and worshiping and testifying—in such a way that their ministry has not been in vain?

Or have you wasted their effort by continuing to live for self, for self-righteousness, and for half-gospels?

Before you wander into cliques and camps, and before you add religion to freedom, remember the truth you were told—and the one who loved you enough to tell it.

Don’t waste their efforts.

— Tyler