SEPARATED FROM MY MOTHER'S WOMB - SOUNDS PAINFUL

     In the third chapter of Galatians, Paul says that God separated him from his mother's womb.  What in the heck?
     Wouldn't that be a little painful?  Maybe grotesque?  Illegal in some countries? OK, still working on that one.  But, in the very least he paints a pretty disgusting picture about 3/4 of the way down in Chapter 3.
      He does talk a lot in that chapter about how the stuff he got did not come from men or flesh and blood, but from the Spirit of God.  He says that the things he is saying were given to him directly from Jesus.  So, I think the point he is trying to make is that his new way of thinking is not "what are my friends, my family, even my own mother telling me to do."  He has shifted over to the "what does Jesus want me to do" camp.
      And to get there, he could have been slowly assimilated to God's kingdom going half-way between there and the "mother's womb" world.  Or, God could just have him do the Polar Plunge - just dive in to this new way of thinking.
       When you are separated from your mother's womb, there's no going back.  You have left that way in the past.....
        I guess that's what God would love for all of us to do.