Daily Devotion March 15

March 15: 1 Corinthians 1:10-13

KJV Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 1:10
10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisionsamong you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Devotion:
Paul reveals to the Corinthians that there is division appearing in the church. For that to be visible by him means that it must have been known to many people so that at least one of them would have mentioned it to others for word to spread. It is not as if he was there watching via closed circuit TV or anything… When we are in the midst of the trouble and strife we do not often see what is going on because we do not look at the overall picture, focusing instead on our own objectives or wants.

Just because we are different people and we think differently does not mean that we have to impose our ways on everyone else. We should celebrate our differences and live life knowing and accepting those differences. As long as we are all working toward the same goal of living our lives with Christ, obeying Him and bringing glory to God, we should be able to get on… but we don’t!

So what do we do with our differences? What do we do with our different skills and gifts? We combine together to be able to do more than we can apart from each other. God made us different so we can complement each other. He did not create us different so we can each worship our own gods but that we could come together as one church and worship the same God. It takes a whole lot of different things to make up a church body that can effectively worship God.

Instead of closing ourselves off from others and only doing things our own way, we should be embracing differences so we can learn more from each other. God knows we are weak and that we will wander off under temptation so we need to keep Him close so we can hear Him when He speaks. Having other agendas means we are listening to too many other things!

Points to Ponder:
Who do you follow?

Are you walking with Christ?