To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. 1 Corinthians 9:22
In 1 Corinthians 9, we see Paul living out his passion and instructions from the earlier chapters. We see a man possessed with the desire to win others to Christ. Charles Spurgeon writes about this focus this way, "It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master passion. Such a man is sure to be strong and if the master principle is excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too. The man of one objective is a man, indeed. Lives with many aims are like water trickling through innumerable streams, none of which is wide enough or deep enough to float the merest cockleshell of a boat. But a life with one objective is like a mighty river flowing between its banks, bearing to the ocean a multitude of ships and spreading fertility on either side. Give me a man not only with a great objective in his soul, but thoroughly possessed by it — his powers all concentrated and he on fire with vehement zeal for his supreme objective — and you have put before me one of the greatest sources of power which the world can produce!
" I ask you what was there in Paul, by the Grace of God, which may not be in you? And what had Jesus done for Paul more than for you? He was divinely changed and so have you been if you have passed from darkness into marvelous light! "
Join me in reading chapter 9 and be encouraged!
