James Brown - "the hardest working man in show business"
1 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18
I imagine we would all like to make this claim when the time of
our departure is at hand. “I have fought the good fight…” In the end that
simply means to finish the race with faith regardless of the difficulties faced,
the struggles endured or the trials withstood. In his letter to Ephesians Paul
will say it this way. “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of
his power… and having done everything, to stand firm.” (Ephesians 6:10, 13)
It was in weakness that Paul found strength and in foolishness, wisdom. (1 Corinthians
1:26ff) so that his boasting was in the Lord (even if there was a time or three
when his pride got the better of him). But that is what makes him a real person
for us and not some mythological Herculean figure. A human being like you and
me who did not understand his own actions, lamenting the good that he did not
do and deploring the evil he repeated. (Romans 6:15ff) That being said the Paul
who penned the 13th chapter of his first letter to the conflicted Corinthians understood the heart of the faith he kept was the unconditional
love that had transformed the chief persecutor of the church into the James
Brown of the apostles.(1 Corinthians 15:9-10)
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