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How does my life today impact
my life in the resurrection?
Reflections on 1 Corinthians 15
Friday, May 2, 2014
How does my life today impact
my life in the resurrection?
Reflections on 1 Corinthians 15
Friday, May 2, 2014
“With
all this going for us, my dear, dear friends,
stand your ground. And don't hold back.
Throw yourselves into the work of the Master,
confident that nothing you do for him is a waste of time or effort”
1 Corinthians 15:58 (MSG)
stand your ground. And don't hold back.
Throw yourselves into the work of the Master,
confident that nothing you do for him is a waste of time or effort”
1 Corinthians 15:58 (MSG)
(Read the
entire Chapter https://www.bible.com/bible/37/1co.15.ceb)
This
passage tells me one HUGE thing. NOTHING
that I do for the Lord is ever, ever wasted!!!!!!
It
tells me that how I live today impacts the kind of life I will have in my next
life. If I have lived for
myself, that doesn’t transfer. What
I have done and thought and tried today which is in some way, shape or form
done, tried and thought with the Lord in mind . .
. . that
does transfer. Even all
those things that were done poorly, yet in service to the Lord, those things,
too, are among the “seeds” out of which your new self will grow.
This
passage tells me yet more.
It
tells me that the new heavens and new earth, when merged as God’s New World
where God dwells with resurrected believers who will be reigning with him, . . .
. . . this new world is being constructed right now out of the raw material of
everything that believers do on his behalf.
Every act of generosity, service and kindness, every bit of art or
craftsmanship done for the glory of God, every act of compassion, every effort
toward the making of a just society, all of these things are not only previews
of the world to come, they are also the raw material out of which the new world
will be built. You will be
delighted to recognize each and every thing you do for the Lord preserved and
enhanced in God’s New World.
Nothing
you do for Lord will be wasted.
Can
you think of a way that knowing this might alter how you spend your days?
“Lord, 1 Corinthians 15:58 is great verse for a believer to adopt as
his or her ‘life verse’. Lord
help me to do today that which will not be wasted,
to do that which I will one day be delighted to see having been preserved
in the World to come, the most real of all worlds, the one for which each
believer is destined. Amen"
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