Rejoice!

There is a beautiful promise in the Bible that they who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. Saint Paul soars on eagles’ wings in 1 Corinthians 13, he runs very well in Romans 12. But occasionally he plods - and we faint. The author of the second epistle of Peter admits that even for him there are some things in Paul’s letters that are hard to understand. What he might have had in mind is our today’s passage in Galatians.

What had shaken Paul was information he received that the Christian people in Galatia were on the verge of giving up Christianity and going back to Judaism, or a hybrid kind of Christianity which was not really, basically Christian. Paul could not…