faithfulness

 It will indeed be ironic to hear someone call the people who lived in Corinth saints. But guess what, some already did! the apostle Paul. This is a big deal because those who have spent time reading the bible will tell you that they were one of the most problematic churches we have ever seen in scripture. The word saint simply means “one who has been set aside for God”. Sanctified for God or set aside for the purposes of God. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Paul says to us, “You are not your own, for you were bought with a price.” Together, these two passages help us understand the biblical meaning of saint. It is someone whom Christ bought with His own blood on the cross and has separated unto Himself to be His own possession. Every new believer has been set apart by God, separated unto God to be transformed into the likeness of His Son, Jesus Christ. In this sense, every believer is a saint — a person separated from his old sinful way of life and set apart by God to increasingly glori...

  Finding your place in the world could be the main purpose of your existence because the one who created you had a reason for making you. The question then becomes, “do you know why you were created?” Sorry to say, the church has made a good number of us forgo our reason for being in this world. Cause we think there are those who are called while others are just the support staff. The thing is even the small things are made for his glory! Meaning that which you do is for his glory and you don’t need to have a title or recognition to fulfill that which he created you to do. I have been looking at some of the prophets in the bible, and it made me realize that we are mostly misunderstood by a good number of people when we choose to follow that which God has called us to be. This is unrealistic in the human eye when you turn down a good job to pursue a feeling of pleasing God.   It gets worse when you meet the scholars who will seek to find a reason behind your choices, but unf...