A Father In The Faith

1 Corinthians 4:14  

"I write not these things to shame you, 

but as my beloved sons I warn you." 

   Paul is saying that all their errors and mistaken ways are due, not to deliberate rebellion, but to the fact that they have forgotten. That is so true of human nature. Often it is not that we rebel against Christ; it is simply that we forget Him. And it is not that we deliberately turn our backs on Him; it is simply that we forget that He is in the scheme of things at all. Most of us need one thing above all; "a deliberate effort to live in the conscious realization of the presence of Jesus Christ." It is not only at the sacrament but at every moment of every day that Jesus Christ is saying to us, "Remember Me." 

   Jesus never said, "By their words you shall know them," He said, "By their fruits you shall know them." The world is full of talk about Christianity, but one deed is worth a thousand words. There is a love which can ruin a man by shutting its eyes to his faults; and there is a love which can mend a man because it sees him with the clarity of the eyes of Christ. Paul's love was the love which knows that sometimes it has to hurt in order to amend. 

   My Friends, What a world we would live in if just half of the men in this world could have the love that Paul had for his fellow man. Paul was a Father in the Faith, because he taught The Gospel of Jesus Christ to anyone who was within hearing distance around him, it did not matter where he was or what time it was.

Amen! 

Reading: 1 Cor. 4:14-21

Ref: HG SB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry