13 August 2025
Daily Devotion:
"The Believer’s Inheritance"
1 Corinthians 3:20-23
New Living Translation
20 And again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise; he knows they are worthless.” 21 So don’t boast about following a particular human leader. For everything belongs to you— 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Peter, [b] or the world, or life and death, or the present and the future. Everything belongs toyou, 23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
Have you ever been the odd man out? It's not any fun to feel overlooked or left out. There's a time in everyone's life when he or she is not included or simply doesn't make the cut. Few pains are quite like the feeling that you just don't belong anywhere. Everyone needs to have someone; there's joy in knowing you belong.
All Christ followers can rest assured that they belong. It doesn't matter if one's marital status isn't what he had hoped or if everyone else seems to have more friends. Paul told the Corinthian believers that they belonged to Christ. The apostle John shared a similar sentiment in 1 John 4:4- “The one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.” You can live with joy knowing you belong. You are included; you have a place at the table. God smiles when you show up because you belong to Him.
