Jayamsih..! Welcome to today’s devotion!
Know No Man
1 Corinthians 1:18
To many, the preaching of the cross is foolishness, for it comes to destroy all good human reason. But for us, the preaching of the cross is the power of God, because it destroys the old to bring forth the new, which is the resurrected mind of Christ. The cross does not save any good lamb for sacrifice, but it destroys all, that we may know only Christ and Him crucified. If people would only go to God through their personal crucifixion with Him, how many would still judge and evaluate others as they follow God in His omnipresence? When Jesus was 12 years old, what did the people say to him as he went on his father’s business? Even at that time, Jesus knew what the meaning of the cross was in his life and what it meant to follow that cross in the sovereignty of God’s plan, even without people giving any answer to what he did.
God’s answer to people’s inclusion in God’s plan is to enter into the crucifixion and then not recognize people according to the flesh. Here the body does not speak of Adam’s nature, because it was pierced at the crucifixion. But this means not knowing people according to the actions of the physical body.
We do not know a man by his works in the physical realm, but by his works he lives for God. Then there is the universality of the physical body plan, the purpose of certainties, and the provision of Christ’s own desire for us that frees us to be our leaders in spreading redemption.
Today’s Reading: Psalms 82-84