Today's meditation: understanding the grace of God

The Apostle writes to the Galatians to understand that grace has taken them out of the rule of the Law. When the gospel was preached to them, there were some who came from the circumcision who, although Christians, still did not understand the gift of the gospel, and therefore wanted to comply with the prescriptions of the Law that the Lord had imposed on those who did not serve justice, but sin . In other words, God had given a just law to unjust men. It highlighted their sins, but did not blot them out. In fact, we know that only the grace of faith, working through charity, takes away sins. Instead the converts from Judaism claimed to place the Galatians, who were already in the regime of grace, under the weight of the Law, and claimed that the Galatians would have been worthless if they were not circumcised and did not submit to all the prescriptions. formalities of the Jewish rite.
For this conviction they had begun to harbor suspicions towards the apostle Paul, who had preached the gospel to the Galatians and blamed him for not following the course of conduct of the other apostles who, according to them, led the pagans to live as Jews. Even the apostle Peter had succumbed to the pressure of these people and had been led to behave in such a way as to make people believe that the gospel would have benefited the pagans if they had not submitted to the impositions of the Law. But the apostle Paul himself distracted him from this double course, as he narrates in this letter. The same problem is also dealt with in the letter to the Romans. However, there seems to be some difference, due to the fact that in this Saint Paul settles the dispute and settles the quarrel that had broken out between those who came from the Jews and those who came from paganism. In the letter to the Galatians, however, he addresses those who had already been troubled by the prestige of the Judaizers who forced them to comply with the Law. They had begun to believe them, as if the apostle Paul had preached lies inviting them not to be circumcised. This is how it begins: "I marvel that you pass to another gospel so quickly from the one who called you with the grace of Christ" (Gal 1: 6).
With this debut he wanted to make a discreet reference to the controversy. Thus in the same greeting, proclaiming himself an apostle, "not by men, nor by man" (Gal 1, 1), - note that such a declaration is not found in any other letter - shows quite clearly that those auctioneers of false ideas did not come from God but from men. He should not be treated as inferior to the other apostles as far as the evangelical witness was concerned. He knew he was an apostle not by men, nor by man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father (cf. Gal 1, 1).