The Curse Culmination

The word, curse used in our modern day vernacular is often used to denote some sort of supernatural power to invoke harm or punishment on others.

My youngest daughter used to think she had these sort of powers as she liked to pump her little fist in the air and yell, "curse you" in a playful, yet sometimes, annoyed way.

Yet, despite her playful attitude, the word curse carries with it a heavy meaning for those who really feel the effects of it. Some synonyms for curse are: affliction, burden, bane, bitter pill, misfortune, misery, ordeal, trail, tribulation, torment, trouble, problem, and even cross to bear.

Interesting that the phrase 'cross to bear' is used as a word related to curse. "The Bible states, 'cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree" (Galatians 3:13) resulting in a cross that Jesus literally had to bear.

Ironically this curse culminated into a blessing and salvation for the world.

The Bible says that God "made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." 2 Corinthians 5:21

And also," When the fullness of the time had come, God sent His Son...to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons and daughters." Galatians 4:4-7

The problem with the law is that everyone who doesn't keep it perfectly and obey all of it's commands would be considered cursed. "Those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under this curse, for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God’s Book of the Law.” So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law."

So what's the answer to the curse of not keeping the law?

Faith.

For the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life. But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” Galatians 3:11, 13

Jesus saved us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. He was delivered up for our offenses, for the wrong, for the sin that I have done, that you have done.

The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith and now that the way of faith has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian.

This does not mean that we do not obey God's commands. It just means that keeping these laws cannot save us, because scriptures say that we are all slaves to sin. Basically, we're all gonna mess up, make mistakes and sin. But the one thing I can offer to God without flaw is my faith. My flesh is flawed, sinful and weak, but my faith is willing to believe in a God who loved the world so much that he sent his one and only son to become a curse on a tree for me.

That, my friend culminates the curse into the greatest blessing of mankind.