This chapter begins with Paul declaring his readers less than spiritually-minded.

Their focus wasn’t on Jesus and kingdom.

Their fascination was with things and matters of this world.

They were babies in Christ.

No wonder they had the problems they did.

“For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?” (1 Corinthians 3:3).

Ouch!

I am convicted by that.

Envying, strife, and divisions reveal carnality.

What will be the demonstrations of spirituality?

How I need God’s help to live by His Spirit instead of mine!

“Only” — that’s what save means here:

“For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2).

In context, I don’t know what the Apostle Paul meant. Surely he was interested in learning more among them and about them than that.

This morning, though, this verse reminds me of the importance of not being a problem prospector — one who goes around looking for what is wrong.

What if I made this my main focus — what the crucified Jesus is doing today in the life of another?

I wonder what that would do for personal problems, interpersonal problems, and congregational problems?

By the way, what has the crucified Jesus done in me of late?

How would He reveal Himself through me? Today?