So about eating food sacrificed to idols: 

We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and Lords), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.

1 Corinthians 8:4-6 BSB

Last Sunday morning I ended up at a shopping centre and in the massive carpark there, struggled to find a park. 

The idols of our world are there, just a little more subtle than in the ancient world that Paul was writing to. 

Paul does remind us of what, or more importantly, who we place our faith and hope in, and who we worship. 

He wants us to keep the main thing, the main thing. 

Clearly in his day the food, the power of the idols, was a thing that he was writing about. I wonder what he would write to us about?

To me about?

To you about?

Whatever that is, he would remind us that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, and to keep our focus on Jesus. 

Paul was addressing the mess of the culture the church he was writing to was living in, and as he would to us, reminds us to keep the Big Story in mind, that above the mess, bigger than all of it is our God who loves, and Jesus who not only entered in, but will one day make all things new.

#corinthians

#faith

#hope

#love