In this final chapter of First Corinthians, Paul is speaking personally about his Spirit directed life. Paul makes his home and his life wherever God puts him.
Although it is true that you have the freedom to do whatever you want , it is also paradoxically true that God orchestrates times and events, and even does so in a personal way. This means that you are not where you are by accident. Your life does not begin tomorrow, when . . . . . . . . . Rather your life before God is lived now, today, where you are, not where you aren’t. There is no “when . . . . . then . . .” thinking for the Christ follower.
Paul saw that a window of opportunity had opened for him right where he was. However, please notice that for Paul to be able to see this he had to be seeing with his spiritual eyes, not his physical ones. Why? What his physical eyes could see was mushrooming opposition and impending persecution.
Are you able to see with spiritual eyes the “door of opportunity for good work” that God has for you right where you are?
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