United With Christ Jesus

Meditations in First Corinthians 

April 21, 2022

United With Christ Jesus

God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin.

1 Corinthians 1:30

Read: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31

Paul compared the wisdom and strength of the world’s culture, to the wisdom and strength of God. God prevailed according to Paul, and it wasn’t a close contest. In today’s passage, we learn Jesus is the embodiment of God’s wisdom.

It wasn’t a close contest because where in the world’s culture can one be made right with God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth? Where in the world’s culture can one be made pure and holy? Where, oh where, in the world’s culture can one be freed from sin?

Think of all that God has done. He made it possible for us to be in a right relationship with Him. He made us pure and holy. He freed us from sin. And He did all this through Jesus whom He made wisdom itself.

My Takeaway: God did all this though Jesus. And God united us with Jesus. What, pray tell, does the world’s culture offer that is better than being united with Jesus. Actually, all the world’s culture can offer is myriad of ways to be disconnected from Jesus.

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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