Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have begun to reign – and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you! (1 Corinthians 4:8)
The church in Corinth seemed to think that they had made it. They looked around at themselves and thought that they had everything God planned for them, that they had achived the pinnacle of the Christian life. The reality, however, is that they had not got there yet. It’s very easy for us to do something similar, and to think that life is good - it is, and can be, but there is so much more to come.
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives among you? (1 Corinthians 3:16)
Our focus in 1 Corinthians has been how we live as God’s holy people. In this verse, the apostle Paul gives us a great reason as to why we should live as God’s holy people. We are God’s temple - the place where God is - and we have God’s spirit - God - living among us. Why should we live as holy people? Because we already are holy people - Paul just wants us to live as the people we already are.
we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. (1 Corinthians 2:7)
As we return to 1 Corinthians, we see the amazing news that God has revealed something to us that is for our glory. What is that mystery? How can we get glory from it? How does it affect how we live?
Ash Wednesday Service
This Wednesday, we will be having our Ash Wednesday service of Holy Communion. This will be at 9:30am, and replaces our regular Morning Prayer.
We’ll be finished in time to join the Coffee Shop at 10:30.
You would be very welcome to join us at 10:30am in St Andrew, Cuffley this Sunday. We’re very pleased to welcome Rev’d Eugene Hanshaw to our service this morning.