Grace, - Not - Law Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

Paul's testimony
was the most
glorious example,
that salvation is
by God's grace and
not by man's merit
or' works of the Law.

He spoke of his
advanced learning
in Judaism and
zealousness for
his ancestral traditions,
which were superior
to many of his
contemporaries.

Paul's intense hatred
of legalism was
because he himself
had been entrapped
in its web of deception
and it pained him to
see these dear folk
in Galatia being
so brutally deceived
by this legalist
teaching that places
men back under
the curse of the Law,
after having been
liberated by God's
grace through faith.

(St. Paul was converted to Christ
after spending years, trying to destroy
the followers of Christ)