I found myself focused on verse 2: For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. The centrality of Jesus and the cross! Paul resolved to know nothing except Jesus and the cross. Before I knew it I found myself humming an old hymn (Edward Mote, 1834:
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.
Refrain: On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
Refrain
His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my Hope and Stay.
Refrain
When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh may I then in Him be found.
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
Refrain
It’s all about Jesus and what He did for me/us on the cross. Paul built his preaching, his ministry and his life on Jesus and the cross.
The thought came: “What about me? What am I building my life upon?”
Now how about you? What are you building your life upon?
A worthy meditation point on the eve of the Lord’s Day…
O, God, when my earthly life ends and I am called before Your throne of judgment, may I be found standing on Jesus Christ alone, dressed in Christ’s righteousness in which He clothed me when I believed in Him as Savior and Lord. Amen.
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