Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“For I fear that when I come, I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, ”
NL Daily Devotion for Thursday, August 13, 2020
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
Paul is all in a froth over the church at Corinth. In spite of everything he’s done for them, all the ways he’s witnessed to them, sacrificed to build them up, they are stubbornly refusing to behave as he would have them. Maybe Paul was justified in his frustration—the Church at Corinth really was a hot mess.
More personally, I look at this verse and think of the strained relationship I have at the moment with my adult daughter. The self-righteousness in me wants to give her a laundry list of “all the things I’ve done for you” and demand her compliance with how I think she should be behaving. And, yeah, that’s not gonna fly. Just for today, she does not find me as she wishes, and I don’t find her as I wish. And honestly, I just have to let it go, trusting that God’s got her, just as much as God has me.
Where are my expectations of others causing me unnecessary resentment?
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