You’ve been filled already! You’ve become rich already! You rule like kings without us! I wish you did rule so that we could be kings with you! I suppose that God has shown that we apostles are at the end of the line. We are like prisoners sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle in the world, both to angels and to humans. We are fools for Christ, but you are wise through Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, but we are dishonored! Up to this very moment we are hungry, thirsty, wearing rags, abused, and homeless. We work hard with our own hands. When we are insulted, we respond with a blessing; when we are harassed, we put up with it; when our reputation is attacked, we are encouraging. We have become the scum of the earth, the waste that runs off everything, up to the present time. (1 Corinthians 4:8-13, CEB)
Have you ever had to endure being harassed, attacked, or the like?
It isn’t any fun. It is incredibly debilitating.
Paul though here says they went through all of this, being harrassed, being attacked, being called the scum of the earth, and they held their heads high, because God had filled them.
God filled them with the Spirit to know that those speaking were saying falsehoods, they were spreading lies and God loved and held them dearly.
That is the same for you.
You are a beloved child of God and when others, harass, attack, revile, and call you scum, God says you are beautiful and loved.
You are loved and filled by God.
Loving People. Loving God.
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