FDREL 212 My Insights

Week 8 Insights My favorite thing I read about this week was in First Timothy 1:15- "This is a faithful saying , and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners ; of whom I am chief."  I know I said this in my reading report thing, but I absolutely love when apostles remind us that they're still sinners just like the rest of us. Often we look at them like they are perfect people who can do no wrong, but Paul owns it and just says, Christ came to save all sinners, and Lord knows I have sinned.  We have to embrace our sins I think. We acknowledge them, repent of them, and move on. There is no reason to dwell on them or worry, because we're just going to make another mistake within the next day. At the end of the day, all that matters to Christ is whether we are trying our best. That's all he requires of us.

I absolutely loved one of the verses that came out of this weeks reading, it was Romans chapter 8 verses 25 and 25. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. I'm not good at believing in stuff I can't see, I never have been. The entire point of what he's saying in this verse though is that hope is hope because we can't see it. If we saw everything, then our faith couldn't be tested. The best I can do is to just hope. Because that's the entire point. 

The thing I loved most this week was definitely one of the insights I learned from the reading. 1st Corinthians 12:27-30. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? We are all children of God, and we each have the talents and gifts we have for a reason.We have to remember that we can’t compare ourselves to others because we are all made exactly the way God intended and I absolutely love that. It's something that we all need to remember.