Daily Reflections From Higher Things®

Daily Lectionary: 2 Samuel 1:1-27; 1 Corinthians 7:25-40 This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short…For the present form of this world is passing away. (1 Corinthians 7:29a, 31b) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. The appointed time has grown very short. The present form of this world is passing away. Some days those words ring so true. We see the disruption and frustration that sin brings into this world. Our graduation celebrations are cancelled because of a virus. We are isolated away from our friends at school, church, and work. Weddings are postponed indefinitely. The present form of this world is passing away. Yet some days, Paul's words sound just too negative for us. We have joy. We are free from anxiety in our callings. We become betrothed to another and rejoice. So what should our view of life look like? A gloom that paralyzes us or unbridled joy? God's Word shoots it right down the middle for us with words from the apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 7. Applying wisdom that