"This world is not my home. I'm just a passing through." Words that echo from the old spiritual. But the truth is we constantly live between the tension of at home while being away from our ultimate home.
The Church in Corinth seems to be struggling with the fragility of their human bodies and understanding what happens after you die. They are wrestling with some of the same questions we still ask today. But Paul is reminding them to focus on the ultimate things.
When we get too focused on the appearance of things, or our limited understanding, we can miss the point. That certainly happened to Jesus. When people in Jesus's day and time only focused on his outward appearance, they missed the power of the message he came to proclaim. They missed the point.
We can do the same thing today when we get so caught up in the details that we miss the ultimate call. While we are here in our earthly bodies we are to walk by faith. Does that mean we will know everything? No. Does it mean that we will understand even the things we do know? No. But we travel on - trusting that God will lead us, sustain us, and use us, in a powerful way.
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