If for this life only
we have hoped in Christ,
we are of all people
most to be pitied.
1 Corinthians 15:19
Maybe it was different in Paul's day. But in our day, it's the opposite of 1 Corinthians 15:9.
In Paul's day, it appears that people let Christ encourage their daily life, but didn't hope much for heaven. Maybe that was an old holdover from the days of the Sadduccees. They were sad-you-see (say it out loud) because they taught fervently against life everlasting. So maybe in Corinth, people let Christ encourage their daily life, but didn't hope much for heaven.
In our day it's the other way around. As an African exchange student at an American seminary said to his classmates, "I can't figure you American's out. You all want to spend eternity with God in heaven, but you're all too busy to give him five minutes in a normal day."
Maybe our modern translation of 1 Corinthians 15 ought to say: "If for the next life only we have hoped in Christ, we are most to be pitied."
God wants to transform your life today! Why not spend a few extra minutes with him ... right now.
In Christ's Love,
a guy who's too often
too busy
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