The Devotional – 1062 – Foot Steps in First Corinthians, on going

The Devotional – 1062 – Foot Steps in First Corinthians, on going

Many people react to living in every insensible way imaginable. The writer of Psalm 119 explains this in the following verse. Verse 70 reads: Their heart is as fat as grease, but I delight in Your Law. Now you should be thinking… What has that sentence got to do with anything pertaining to being in Christ? Very much! Very much indeed. I believe that all of the children of God know that he has dealt with us very well, that in accordance with His Word the LORD has shown us great grace. No doubt our sins, are so great that we should not be writing or reading, but maybe lamenting or mourning. Yet He continues to teach us His wonderful Judgments. Why? Because we believe His Commands, His Statutes and His Precepts. We discern that the Statutes and the Law of the LORD are better than thousands of coins of gold and silver. 

CHALLENGES & COMMENTS – 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

One of the visible pictures of the comment above is actually found in 1 Corinthians 13. How does the world view these 13 verses of the Living Word of God? In the world, love is emotional, physical and often as unstable as one’s feelings. Thus the world and the religions of the world are restricted to understanding 1 Corinthians 13 to the “gut” the term “fat as grease”. The Hebrew word for “fat” means to “be stupid” and the word for “grease” (used only this once) is “fat of the best kind” rich fat!

So here it is: The world misses the mark and many believers do as well; speaking with the tongues of men and angels are NOT evidence of love, but are a reaction of being very rich in stupidity if one does not have an understanding of the love of God. 

The apostle Paul extends the thought of this to all the temporary gifts of the Spirit of God in the remaining verses; prophesies, mysteries and knowledge, he adds that even faith is dependent on the emotions of an individual if it is founded on the emotional “hub” of living for God, rather than the faith found in Hebrews 11:1-3.

Whatever you and I do, give away personal goods, feed every person we meet who needs a meal, or sacrifice our life for the good of humanity and do not understand the “love” of God, the profit of this actions is for NOTHING. So if this is true and it is, how do I know the difference? The love we have from God is not, of the world; period!

It is arrogant by parading abilities that one does not have, love never behaves rudely, it does not keep accounts for evil purposes. Love endures ALL things, it believes the TRUTH and while other things of spiritual life, even life itself will fail; love does not fail, God’s love is eternal. Our lives are full of failures of all kinds. Physical, Spiritual and mental failure is around us CONSTANTLY. Why? Come on now! Our finite mind is only temporal at best. The Word of God teaches us to LOVE eternally.

The world clings to emotional expressions of faith, hope and love; emotion like a wave of the sea crashes on the beach of sand and disappears, absorbed in the grit of time and disappointment. But God has a permanent plan of faith, hope and love which is protected in the salvation helmet of His love.