Picture

"This is an allegory," Galatians 4:24.

(Hear what the Law says here!) Allegory? A picture. Ok. What's the picture? Picture this: Abraham had a kid with the slave woman, Hagar. Too, he had a kid with the free woman, Sarah. These two women picture two covenants. The Hagar covenant, the second one, pictures Mt. Sinai in Arabia (where God gave the Law to Moses). She, in her slavery, represents the Jerusalem here on earth with all her kids enslaved to the Law's curses. The Sarah covenant, the first one, pictures God's promises of forever life. She, in her freedom, represents the Jerusalem in the sky above. She produces free kids of promise. Children of God's promises. We (having put on Christ) are those promised kids.

We get together with a brother or sister today, free, happy children of Sarah. And, together in thankfulness, we praise God that we show up in his eternal family picture.