7/9/2012
1 Corinthians 4:8- “Already you have all you want! Already
you have become rich! You have become kings- and that without us! How I wish
that you really had become kings so that we might be kings with you!”
Interpretation: I have all I want. I think that I need a new
shirt, or a watch. I’m excited to go home so I can have my own car, join a gym,
and eventually have my own house and my own life and family. I have all I want.
I think that I want to take new photos, go new places, and fill myself up with
food and with drink, but I already have all I want. I miss my friends and my
parents and I am excited to be with everyone again. I am excited to have a job
again and make my own income, but, already I have become rich. With my eyes on
the world and my heart on my self and I feel empty and full of desires and
needs. But God will bring to the light what is hidden in the darkness and will
expose the motives of men’s hearts. When I come to the cross, and I sit at the
foot of Calvary, and I watch the blood drip out of the hands of Jesus, the Holy
and mighty maker of all things, he looks unto me and only says, “I love you.” I
do have all that I want. Love, mercy, grace, and understanding unending. I am
rich beyond measure. Why do I get up and leave this place? To chase after gold,
silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, that will not stand through the test
of the fire? And what do I have that I did not receive? And if I did receive
it, why do I boast as though I did not? I sit back down today, cross-legged and
free underneath the shadow of the wings of God, filled underneath the cross of
sufficiency.
Application: Today I will look for things I can do, or
things I can give away to others, instead of looking to take care of my own.
