2 Corinthians 3
The theme for our youth fellowship for this quarter is taken from 2 Corinthians 3: 5 – 6, and reading this whole chapter, the strong message I get is: “We are ministers of a more glorious covenant”
Indeed our sufficiency in this ministry is from God, who has made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant…
As I read this chapter of Paul’s epistle, I’m being reminded of how blessed we are, because we are all ministers of this new covenant that God has made with man.
Bible Passage: 2 Corinthians 3
All of us should have known and understood by now that how great a love God has shown towards us through all that He had done for our salvation.
Therefore, it is really reasonable to offer up our bodies as living sacrifices in order to repay His love.
Yes, there is no way that we can fully repay His love, or even partially repay His love, but we still have to put in our utmost to serve God.
Being part of God’s work force, there is nothing to lose but everything to gain; because in the first place, it is a grace that we are able to serve, so that we can have the opportunity to be on the path to repaying His great love for us.
Next, when we serve Him, He is the One who supplies us with the sufficiency to serve. In fact, as we serve Him, we are bound to see His marvelous hands working with us; and if we have witnessed His wonderful acts, we can and will be greatly edified, thus strengthening our faith in Him.
And as we serve, God will surely add to our wisdom and ability to continue in the works that He has allotted to us.
Actually God doesn’t need us to work for Him, because He can easily cause things to work in ways that are according to His will, therefore we are just His co-workers or in a more simple sense, we are just tagging along behind Him to learn and to see His wondrous acts of salvation.
And talking about serving, Paul reminds us of a very wonderful truth,
7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the
children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his
countenance, which glory was passing away,
8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?
9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much
more in glory.
2 Corinthians 3: 7 – 8
Yes! We are going to witness more of the glory of God compared to the saints of the Old Testament times, isn’t this exciting!?
In these present times, God has sent His Spirit into us, and therefore we are all being sent out to do the works of God with the power and authority of the Holy Spirit.
We all have been made ministers of this new covenant, and there is no need to fear but with boldness we must do the works of God, for His returning is very soon.
The truth that we have been entrusted to proclaim is too wonderful to be kept to ourselves, so we must share it around in this world that is under the sway of the wicked one, so that we can snatch souls from the clutches of the devil.
As ministers of this new covenant, we need to be humble in serving the Lord, having the attitude to serve and not to be served.
We must also lead a prayer dependent life to receive strength and wisdom from God, always fixing our minds on things above lest we be swept away by the trends and temptations of the world.
May God help and guide us.
Shalom