When Di Time Reach Well Well

One small girl for children home look up as di door open. Somebody don come for her. No be to visit. Na to adopt her. To give her new name, new home, family wey be her own forever. Paul talk say na for dis kind thing Christmas happen.

Paul don travel through di area of Galatia, for di place wey be central Turkey today, dey tell people about Jesus. Churches start everywhere. Plenty of di new believers no be Jews. Then, after Paul don move go another place, some teachers come wey talk say: to believe Jesus no reach. If you wan really belong to God family, you must also keep di whole law of Moses and do circumcision. Paul hear am and e worry am well well. E write one letter wey get fire and wey come from im heart, and for di middle of im argument, e tell di story of Christmas for few short lines.

First, Paul draw one picture. Imagine one pikin wey go inherit big property one day. As e still small, e no different from servant for di house. E dey under guardians and managers until di day wey im papa don fix. Na so, Paul talk, e be for God people. Dem be like children wey dey wait, wey rules dey keep, wey dey long for di day wey dem go really enter dem inheritance. And then di day reach.

But when di time reach well well, God send im Son, wey woman born, wey dem born under di law. Notice every part. When di time reach well well: God no late, and e no early. God send im Son: di Son dey with God before e come. Woman born am: real birth, real mother, Mary for Bethlehem. Dem born am under di law: one Jewish baby boy, wey dem circumcise for di eighth day, wey dem present for di temple, wey keep di law for im whole life. Why? Paul tell us. To redeem di people wey dey under di law, to buy dem back, so dat God fit adopt us as im children.

And here na di part wey sweet pass. Because una be im children, Paul write, God don send di Spirit of im Son enter una heart, wey dey cry, Abba, Father. Abba na di Aramaic word wey Jesus imself use when e dey pray. Na di word wey pikin go use for house, warm and close. God Spirit dey teach us to talk to God di way Jesus talk. So you no be slave again, Paul talk, but pikin. And if you be pikin, then you be heir of God through Christ. Di Son come down, so dat God fit bring us inside.

For di Roman world, adoption na serious legal matter. Son wey dem adopt go collect im new papa name and full right to inherit, just like son wey dem born naturally. Di most famous example na Octavian. Julius Caesar adopt am for im will, and Octavian later become emperor Augustus, di same emperor wey dey rule when dem born Jesus.

When Di Time Reach Well Well. You go find am for Galatians chapter four, verse four to seven. Christians dey read am for Christmas because e tell, for one sentence, why dem born di Son. So see one question wey you go carry dey go. Wetin go change if you really believe say God call you im pikin, and say you fit call am Father?