We Have Received God’s Spirit

Meditations in First Corinthians

April 25, 2022

We Have Received God’s Spirit

“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”

Isaiah 64:4, quoted in 1 Corinthians 2:9

Read: 1 Corinthians 2:6-13

In today’s reading, Paul points out that the world cannot understand the deeper truths about God, because the world is still living in the past. For Paul, human history was divided into two periods: the present age and the age to come. The age to come is fully realized, the Kingdom of God will be fully established and evil, sin and death will be banished. Paul believed that Jesus the Messiah inaugurated the Age to Come. Therefore, life today is only understood in the light of the truth of God in Christ Jesus. To underscore this point, Paul points out that it was the most advanced and highest form of religion the world had known, that conspired with the best government the world had known, to execute Christ Jesus, the Lord of glory. The truth of God the Father Almighty was in their midst, and they rejected him.

When I think about today’s reading, I remember this statement of Miles Stanford in his book, The Principles of Spiritual Growth: “To taste the grace of God is one thing. To be established in it, and to manifest it in character, habit and regular life is another."

My Takeaway: God wants us to be established in His grace and to manifest His grace in our character, habits, and life. God wants us to have the mind of Christ. Paul affirmed that we have received God’s Spirit so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. (v.12)

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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