PrayerBits for Tuesday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Tuesday

Scripture lesson: 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 What is our foundation

Time to reflect: Paul was using this analogy in relationship to the church in Corinth, to let it be known that his successor pastor there was legitimate and could be different and do different things, that he, Paul, was only the layer of the foundation. As is typical of Paul, he wanted to draw the attention away from himself and his successor and put the attention on Jesus.

Moving through the day: Apply the analogy to your life. Do you have a solid foundation in Jesus the Christ on which the rest of you life is built? Every building is different, but it takes a solid foundation to hold the building in tact.

1 Corinthians 3:10-15

10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Each builder must choose with care how to build on it. 11For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ. 12Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13the work of each builder will become visible, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each has done. 14If what has been built on the foundation survives, the builder will receive a reward. 15If the work is burned, the builder will suffer loss; the builder will be saved, but only as through fire.