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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
1 Corinthians 3:16-23; ; 1 Corinthians 4:1-5
Alongside true workers who may yet do bad work (v. 15), there are false servants who defile the temple of God (v. 17). Let no one deceive himself as to what he is or does (v. 18). And let us beware of human standards and reasonings. They are unreliable measuring instruments. The wisdom of the world is foolishness for God, the wisdom of God foolishness for the world (v. 19). Each is valued according to the aim in view. "The natural man" looks with pity at the Christian who, in his opinion, is sacrificing for a vague, uncertain future the advantages and pleasures of the present moment. Well! may we all be very much affected by this kind of madness! What then are the wretched vanities of which we might boast compared with our true possessions? "All things are ours," Paul declares; and they are ours because we ourselves are Christ’s to whom everything belongs. Dependent upon Him, we can surrender everything for His service. But what matters in the first instance is to be "found faithful" (1 Corinthians 4:2). For each one is a steward of much or little and consequently will receive his praise not from his brother but from the One who reads our hearts (v. 5; see 2 Timothy 2:15).
