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4:1 This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful. 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. 4 For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. 5 Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
6 I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers,1 that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another. 7 For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
8 Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you! 9 For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. 10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. 11 To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless, 12 and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; 13 when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.
14 I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 15 For though you have countless2 guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. 16 I urge you, then, be imitators of me. 17 That is why I sent3 you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ,4 as I teach them everywhere in every church. 18 Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. 19 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power. 20 For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. 21 What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?
[1] 4:6
[2] 4:15
[3] 4:17
[4] 4:17
(ESV)
I recently had a mentor share a few Bible passages that could be considered, "life verses". Each verse containing a foundational Biblical truth. As a family, we recently talking about this one: "Choose this day whom you will serve". (Joshua 24:15a)
Each day there are choices. For instance: Did you eat breakfast, or did you skip? Did you turn the TV on, or leave it off? Did you drink a cup of coffee or choose to have a glass of juice instead? Choices are all around us.
On a much larger scale than coffee or juice... in the context Joshua 24:15, who will you serve today? Yourself? Your family? Your sinful nature? Your Heavenly Father? Again, all day long, there are choices to be made. Paul echo's the words of Joshua when in verse 1-2 of our reading he says,
(Vs. 1-2) "So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful."
Today, remember you are a servant, even if you are "the lead leader" in your business. While we might have subordinates below us... every one of us is a subordinate of Christ. Paul says, "men ought to regard us as servants of Christ... "
Of all the words that Paul could have picked, the fact that "servant" was selected means that service is significant. We also can see significance in service in that Christ himself served, ultimately serving all of humanity by dying in our place.
While significant... service also means sacrifice. Service cost Jesus his life. Paul also knew the pains of service (vs. 9). As with Paul and Christ, so with us. Service will cost you something. It might mean swallowing pride. It might mean acting or speaking in humility vs. haughtiness. It might mean rolling up your sleeves and working vs. waiting for someone else to do the job.
As far as what a Christian servant looks like, Paul paints a great picture in vs. 12-13 of our reading. He says, "We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world."
Cursed... persecuted... slandered... scum... refuse... who among us would say, "I'd like more of that please." Serving will always cost the servant something.
That being said, as we benefited from what Christ did for us at the cross... why not seek to bless someone else? Rather than "about us" it could "be about them".
I once heard someone say, "We are never more like God, than when we
serve".
Today, why not take the risk - "Choose this day whom you will serve... "
While I don't know what that will mean for your life, I'm sure at the end of today, you'll be glad you acted as you did.
19:1 An oracle concerning Egypt.
Behold, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud
and comes to Egypt;
and the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence,
and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.
2 And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians,
and they will fight, each against another
and each against his neighbor,
city against city, kingdom against kingdom;
3 and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out,
and I will confound1 their counsel;
and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers,
and the mediums and the necromancers;
4 and I will give over the Egyptians
into the hand of a hard master,
and a fierce king will rule over them,
declares the Lord GOD of hosts.
5 And the waters of the sea will be dried up,
and the river will be dry and parched,
6 and its canals will become foul,
and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up,
reeds and rushes will rot away.
7 There will be bare places by the Nile,
on the brink of the Nile,
and all that is sown by the Nile will be parched,
will be driven away, and will be no more.
8 The fishermen will mourn and lament,
all who cast a hook in the Nile;
and they will languish
who spread nets on the water.
9 The workers in combed flax will be in despair,
and the weavers of white cotton.
10 Those who are the pillars of the land will be crushed,
and all who work for pay will be grieved.
11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish;
the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel.
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am a son of the wise,
a son of ancient kings”?
12 Where then are your wise men?
Let them tell you
that they might know what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan have become fools,
and the princes of Memphis are deluded;
those who are the cornerstones of her tribes
have made Egypt stagger.
14 The LORD has mingled within her a spirit of confusion,
and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds,
as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
15 And there will be nothing for Egypt
that head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.
16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand that the LORD of hosts shakes over them. 17 And the land of Judah will become a terror to the Egyptians. Everyone to whom it is mentioned will fear because of the purpose that the LORD of hosts has purposed against them.
18 In that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of hosts. One of these will be called the City of Destruction.2
19 In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border. 20 It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry to the LORD because of oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and deliver them. 21 And the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day and worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to the LORD and perform them. 22 And the LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing, and they will return to the LORD, and he will listen to their pleas for mercy and heal them.
23 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.
24 In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, 25 whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”
[1] 19:3
[2] 19:18
(ESV)
The oracle against Ethiopia is followed by a second oracle concerning another southern nation, Egypt. The picture of the LORD riding on a swift cloud is used frequently in Scripture for judgment. Even Jesus described himself as "coming on the clouds of heaven" (Matthew 26:64). God's judgment will make the hearts of the Egyptians tremble and will topple their idols. Isaiah warns that civil war would bring all of their plans to naught, in spite of their extreme efforts to consult with the dead and their fallen idols. Isaiah predicts natural disasters and the failure of crops and efforts at fishing. The Pharaoh's advisors would give foolish advice, as God pours out a spirit of delusion that makes them stagger like drunks. Isaiah then predicts that God's judgments would bring the fear of the LORD to the Egyptians, and they would eventually swear allegiance to the LORD. An altar to the LORD would become a national monument. The promise of a Savior to deliver Egypt and heal them was fulfilled in part when Jesus' early years were spent in Egypt, as Joseph fled from Herod, and even more so by the fact that Egypt was one of the first nations to adopt the Christian gospel, with the Coptic Church being one of the oldest branches of the Christian Church. This is a part of the fulfillment to God's promise to Abraham, "all peoples on earth will be blessed through" him (Genesis 12:3).
25:1 To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul.
2 O my God, in you I trust;
let me not be put to shame;
let not my enemies exult over me.
3 Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame;
they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
4 Make me to know your ways, O LORD;
teach me your paths.
5 Lead me in your truth and teach me,
for you are the God of my salvation;
for you I wait all the day long.
6 Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love,
for they have been from of old.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
according to your steadfast love remember me,
for the sake of your goodness, O LORD!
8 Good and upright is the LORD;
therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
9 He leads the humble in what is right,
and teaches the humble his way.
10 All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness,
for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
[1] 25:1
(ESV)