Clothed

"And to your seed, not to many seeds, but to one seed," Galatians 3:16.

Huh? What's it talking about? There's a nuance here that needs to be caught to get the point. So check it out. Here's the deal: God made promises of blessing and life to two people. (Say that again?) God promised only two people to be his heirs for heaven. He named them by name: Abraham and, his one seed, Christ. Abraham and Christ. God has no other heirs of those promises. So where does that leave all other humans? Without God, without hope. But. Any other humans who get clothed with Christ, by faith they become that one seed of Abraham, Christ. Heirs of God's promises. So when did they get so clothed? As many as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ, the many became one in Christ Jesus. That congregation is the one body of Christ.

When we meet with a brother or sister today, we do not meet as Jews, ethnics, slave, free, male, female, whatever: we belong to Christ. And, one in Christ, we give thanks, wealthy heirs of all God's promises.