Read 1 Corinthians 3:10-11, 16-23
10Using the gift that God gave me, I did the work of an expert builder and laid the foundation, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds. 11For God has already placed Jesus Christ as the one and only foundation, and no other foundation can be laid.
16 Surely
you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you! 17So
if anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is
holy, and you yourselves are his temple.
18 No
one should fool himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise by this
world’s standards, he should become a fool, in order to be really wise. 19For
what this world considers to be wisdom is nonsense in God’s sight. As the
scripture says, “God traps the wise in their cleverness”; 20and
another scripture says, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are
worthless.” 21No one, then, should boast about what human beings can
do. Actually everything belongs to you: 22Paul, Apollos, and Peter;
this world, life and death, the present and the future—all these are yours, 23and
you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
Think
Paul continues to build up
the church in Corinth, encouraging them to think for themselves. Preachers have come preaching with eloquent
wisdom that doesn’t match the simple foundation laid by Jesus Christ. Paul encourages them to go back to the basics
of Jesus’ teaching.
Pray
Lord,
thank you that I can think for myself.
Please guide my thinking, help me to build everything I know on Jesus as
my foundation.
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