Week 47 - Day 2

1 Corinthians 5-8

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The city of Corinth has been called the Las Vegas of the old world, and so the church at Corinth was made of converted prostitutes, idolaters, thieves, and drunkards.  The church didn’t have all that clean and perfect of a start.  Their lives had been going in one direction and then when they became believers the direction in their lives completely changed.  Many of them continued to struggle with the sins and even just ways of thinking from before they started following Jesus. 

This letter that Paul writes to them addresses some things that had been reported to him that disappointed him,  and he also addresses some matters the Corinthians had written to Paul to ask about.  It is all kind of daily life stuff … how to handle disputes with another believer, questions on marriage and sex, etc.  And here’s the deal—daily life stuff matters.  Yes, we are saved by grace and our sins are forgiven, but that doesn’t mean God wants us to just live however we want to live.  We need to ask questions and seek out the answers from God’s word about how He wants us to live.  After all, “You are not your own, you were bought at a price.  Therefore honor God with your body.”

I recently heard a testimony of someone who had been very far from God and then came to know and follow Jesus.  Even after he became a believer and got baptized he still struggled with alcohol every day.  That issue in his daily life didn’t just disappear when he became a Christian.  He had to make the choice to deal with it and turn that part of his life over to God as well.  I’m sure he is still tempted at times even now that he’s been sober over a hundred days, but he has surrounded himself with other believers who support him and hold him accountable.

And it just so happens that Christians have an incredible resource to go to for guidance for their daily lives—the very word of God, the Bible.  “All Scripture is God-breathed.”  Don’t you want to get to know the One who created you and the One who rescued you?  He’s provided for us all the wisdom and direction we need for our daily lives.  We just need to seek it out and make the choice to turn over to Him every area of our lives.