Friday, July 11, 2014

Today's Bible reading is the 5th chapter of the Book of 1 Corinthians. You can read it here at Bible Gateway: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=NASB&search=1%20Corinthians%205

It was unfortunate but true; there was immorality in the church at Corinth that was "of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles". Perhaps there were many factors that contributed to their struggling spiritual condition but one that I would note was their pride. Their arrogance had kept them from mourning about the things they were doing that were not consistent with the character and teaching of Christ. In verse 6 the Apostle Paul lovingly told them that "their boasting was not good". If it was not good it was bad and if it was bad it came with negative results. Boasting remains an unhealthy act for individual believers or for the church gathered together. James wrote of arrogant boasting and said that "all such boasting is evil". In Galatians Paul asserted, "may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ". And in his second letter to the Corinthians he wrote that "he who boasts is to boast in the Lord". May we fix our eyes on Jesus, grow in grace and in the knowledge of Him and boast only in our glorious Savior as we marvel in Him.

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