He will also strengthen you to the end,

so that you will be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.  God is faithful;

you were called by him into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 1:8-9 CSB

Strengthened.

Blameless

Fellowship

God is faithful.

Incredibly encouraging words.

In the next passage Paul and Sosthenes start talking about the problems in the church, divisions and rivalries.

So while these words are encouraging and true for me, maybe their bigger application is to us.

The church.

On any given day there's some of us who don't feel we have the strength to make it to the end, who are filled with guilt, shame, and Jesus seems a long way away.

As a community we lean into Jesus, fellowship with him, when I feel on the edge of that or drifting away, you can hold me, pull me back in, we get to bear one another's burdens, as we, together represent Jesus to the world, and to one another as we journey together.

#upsidedownkingdom

#loveoneanother

#walkingeachotherhome