I Corinthians 3 "All things are yours!" What in the world does that mean?
When we think of wealth in terms of money or fame and the other marks of our culture we tend get everything backward. The reason is we presume thatwe know what will really makes us whole, happy, fulfilled.
When we think of God and church like the culture pressures us to think we are pressured to "add faith" to our lives just in case there may be some truth to this heaven and hell stuff. We work hard so that we can retire from work.
We think of worship and beauty in worship as superfluous, and want religion that is "practical" and that "meets our needs.
"We think that "belonging wholly to Christ" is something for missionaries or for people stupid enough to be missionaries or full-time pastors or Christian college professors.
We think that really being serious about our faith must be likegoing on a diet: everything good is fattening.
But the Bible tells us that when we belong to Jesus everything good in the universe is in orbit around our best interest!
ALL THINGS ARE YOURS!
Not because in and of yourself you are so great-- but you areChrist's
and Christ is God's
and so Your work is God's work
and God'swork is your work and
Your work and worship is attended by angels...
(...from a sermon on I Corinthians 3)
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