God has a different standard, as it says in Isaiah 55:8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” declares Yahweh. So, when we ask the question, in Acts 16:30 “what must I do…
Category: Devotions
A Revelation of Jesus Christ
The life of Paul is a testimony to the grace and goodness of God. He was one of the toughest and most religious of the Israelites, yet when Jesus Christ appeared to him, he received him as the Lord. This…
We Are Speaking in Christ Before God
In this world, we know people first by what they say and then by what they do. Paul has demonstrated his apostleship in 2 Corinthians 12:12 “Indeed, the signs of an apostle have been done among you with all patient…
Your Zeal has Stirred up the Majority
There is a holy and righteous life for us to live before the world. Yes, separate from the ways of the world as in 2 Corinthians 6:17 “… be separate,” says the Lord, “and do not touch what is unclean,…
The Glory of God in the Face of Christ
From the days of Moses, the Lord has offered his presence to those that will accept him. Jesus said it this way in Matthew 22:37 ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your…
You Are Our Letter
Paul is writing to the church in Corinth and the believers in the region of Achaia because there are differences in governments, in culture, in lifestyles and in spiritual growth and needs in different regions, much as it is today.…
A Great and Effective Door Has Opened
Paul is writing to believers in Corinth some twenty years after Jesus in Luke 24:46–47 “said to them, “Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and repentance…
These Three Remain: Faith Hope and Love
Paul teaches believers to understand their differences the way God does. Just as God made our bodies with many parts, and we appreciate and use them all, so we should view the body of Christ. There is in our fallen…
Proclaim the Lord’s Death Until He Comes
Paul tells the believers in 1 Corinthians 10:23 “All things are permitted, but not all things are profitable”, then points them to Jesus Christ our example in 1 Corinthians 11:1 Become imitators of me, just as I also am of…
Those Who Proclaim the Gospel
The church in Corinth has not supported Paul in his work as the one that brought them the gospel or as an apostle. He gives them examples from life in the world, they would feed an ox working for them.…
The Saints Will Judge the World
Paul brings correction, first reminding believers of their position with God in Christ in 1 Corinthians 6:2 “do you not know that the saints will judge the world?”. Even more than that, in 1 Corinthians 6:3 “Do you not know…
Speak the Hidden Wisdom of God
Paul wrote to the believers about a wisdom, not the wisdom of this world, but in 1 Corinthians 2:7 “the hidden wisdom of God”. This wisdom, in 1 Corinthians 2:10 “God has revealed them through the Spirit”. And though he…
The Cross is the Power of God
We often hear about Paul and his missionary journeys and he was active in planting churches and they grew. But we find here that Paul is admonishing them in 1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I exhort you, brothers, by the name…
He Delighted in Me
David has lived his life as the anointed king over Israel and now recounts his experience. At the anointing in 1 Samuel 16:13 “the Spirit of Yahweh rushed upon David from that day on” and enabled David to rise to…