This week’s sermon: “Consider Your Calling”
God’s love for his people is so rich and full that they need Holy-Spirit help to really feel it. This is why Paul prays in Ephesians 3:18–19 that his readers “may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge.” The love of Christ surpasses what we are able to comprehend with our mere human minds and hearts.
And this amazing love of God means that he not only makes much of us, but that he kindly reminds us again and again that his making much of us is to his glory. We are indeed precious to God, and he loves too much to let that preciousness become our god.
In 1 Corinthians 1:26–31, we see how God loves us, and why he does so in this way. He loves us by
- choosing us for himself
- calling us to himself
- uniting us to Christ and
- making Christ become everything we need.
And the double purpose of God’s loving us like this is “so that no human being might boast in the presence of God” (verse 29), and “so that, as it is written, ‘Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord’” (verse 31). God has loved us in all these ways—God has made so much of us—so that we will enjoy making much of him forever.