Thursday 1 Sep 2022

September 1: 1 Corinthians 3:18-23

Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 3:20
and again, ‘The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.’

Devotion:
I used to think of myself as being very intelligent and quite practical; I even compared myself to others to see how well I was doing. It was only when I started walking close to God I realised how futile my endeavours were to be the clever one! When I was in junior school I used to slack off work because it seemed too simple for me to do – when it came to tests at the end of the year I failed in parts because I had not learned what I should have done!

In high school I only wanted to focus on the subjects I enjoyed, and to that end I got prizes for Engineering Drawing and mathematics; but failed in many other subjects because they just did not interest me! When I started work I taught other people how program before I was sent on the programming course – it just seemed natural to me at the time. Looking back I now think of so much of that time as foolish because I was trying to conform to a rigid world which had no lea way for people who were above average!

Coming to know Christ better set my playing field level once again as I started to see the many facets of life which I had missed out on because of the privileges I had as a youngster. When I went to work in the mission field in London my world was brought down to meet with the people who were nothing like me and needed help and direction in so many ways – things I had taken for granted as a youngster!

God wants us to focus on the people around us and not on the world around us. If we focus on the world we will compare everyone to the world and find so much wanting we may well get scared and run off to a place we feel more comfortable at. Christ wants us to reach out to the people around us and allow them to draw closer to Him where He will be able to do the protecting we cannot hope to do!

Points to Ponder:
Do you really want to help others?

Will you introduce them to your God?