Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. ESV
This is Paul’s final greeting to the Corinthian church. In this he tells them to take what he wrote about and walk in unity with one another. The first sentence he talks about striving for restoration . Restoration is not something to just happen, it’s a process it take some time and some work. But this is the first step I believe we need to take so we can walk in unity so, we can do the other things that Paul said to do in this verses and the verses to encouragement or to comfort someone if we are not in one mid which this verse talk about too. I think in order to live in peace we must be of one mind . We must have one goal, we don’t have to agree on every little topic in the bible, if we tried to do that we would cause just as much division if we disagreed on everything. But on the main things we must agree on such as the gospel and how Jesus died on the cross for our sins and rose in the third day and now we serve him as bondservant and we love to honor and glorify him. I believe if people can agree on that and have that be the foundation of out ministries then we can walk with one mind. So if we strive for restoration and walk with one mind the we can live in peace one another but, as humans we always fall short of this Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Since man is involved in this it will always be flawed but the blood of Jesus is what binds us together and when man fails we can always run to Jesus and remember the cross.
Application:
Today I will draw a cross with the blood of Jesus connecting his people. To represent that we are connected through Jesus blood and to remember to live in peace
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