“For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.”
2 Corinthians 1:12 KJV
Paul, greeting the church in Corinth, said that he rejoiced with complete honesty and a clear conscience that God had empowered him and his team, to conduct themselves in a holy manner and with no hidden agenda. God’s marvelous grace enabled them to minister to everyone with pure motives, not in the clever wisdom of the world. Paul had to be filled with the Word and with the Holy Spirit to say this with complete confidence. God’s invitation to us is the same, to meditate on the Word, to pray in the Spirit, to have no hidden agenda and ambitions but with pure motive of proclaiming and magnifying the Lord Jesus Christ in our hearts with a passion. Our passion is to be eager to present ourselves before God as a perfect and mature minister, without shame, as one who correctly explains the Word of Truth. This is our rejoicing. Praise the Lord!
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