The Son and the Spirit

The Son and the Spirit
Galatians 4.1-7

If you’ve ever tried to write a story, you have probably discovered that your characters get themselves into muddles from which it’s quite hard to get them out. Several nineteenth-century novelists faced this problem, often with heroes and heroines getting into financial and family problems without any obvious solution. A favourite way out of the puzzle was to resolve matters by having someone previously unmentioned die and leave one of the characters a large inheritance. Near the end of the novel, a message arrives to say that a long-forgotten uncle or cousin, perhaps on the other side of the world, has died and left them a fortune. Suddenly everything is resolved. We can breathe again. New hope is born, problems are forgotten, and everyone celebrates...

Taken from Paul for Everyone Galatians and Thessalonians – by Tom Wright