No Moving

DEVOTION

1 CORINTHIANS

NO MOVING

1 Cor 15:58

58 Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

NIV

Now that we are fully knowledgeable about the resurrection being a fact and having been instructed how we will participate in the very same resurrection that Jesus did, we are now being told to stand firm. There are all sorts of different opinions how to apply the scriptures to life. There are all sorts of opinions about God, views of God, and what heaven is like. There are all sorts of religions that use God as a basis for their belief and have shaped and colored their own form of Christianity. But when we have seen the truth, without having been molded into some person’s vision of what it is, we are to stand firm, let nothing move us. We will be either raised from the dead, or we will be changed in an instant, but either way, we will experience a resurrection from here to there. God is real; the resurrection is real for those who are born again. If someone is not born again, they will perish. That is the truth and we are not to be moved from it, we are to stand firm in our faith. We cannot afford to allow the world or some false impression of Christianity move us from our stand. It does not matter how intelligent their argument might sound. It does not matter how spiritual their opinion may appear, if it is not the truth that has been so clearly stated in the scripture, we cannot be moved, we must stand firm. There is clearly but one mediator between us and God and that is Jesus. There is but one who can actually lead us into all truth and that is the Holy Spirit. Yes God has given the gift of Pastor/Shepherd to the church, but He has also given all the gift of discernment to know the voice of God, and to discern the difference between the truth and lies. We cannot afford to be led astray by anyone who presents himself as a shepherd but is actually a wolf in sheep’s clothing. We must stand firm, hold our ground, and give ourselves fully, not partially, to the work of the Lord. That means not part time, not just Sunday mornings, not just when it fits our schedule, not when it is convenient, not when we feel like it, not just when we are asked to do something, but fully. We should never miss a moment to do the work of the Lord. So then the question is what is the work of the Lord? Does he not call each one of us to a task? Does he not fit us, as living stones, into the temple of God as he determines? We each may have a special task and we all might have one same task, but either way we are to give ourselves fully to the task of benefiting the Kingdom of God. Stand firm let nothing move us, no moving.