“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?

“I’m in the same boat as you are,” we say sometimes.

If I were to say that to StevenH, we could say we are two fellows in the same ship.

That’s one angle of fellowship.

What if God wanted to be in the same boat as I am?

“God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord” (1 Corinthians 1:9).

Oh, He does want me in His ship with Him!

In His faithfulness, He has called me into fellowship with Him.

As I go through each day, He wants me to remember He is walking with me.

He wants me to think of Him and to live for Him. He wants to talk with me!

“If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship” (1 John 1:7).