1 Corinthians 1:4

God gives individual talents and gifts to us to use them for the good of His Body. 

Finding our strengths and using them for His purposes fulfills His calling to be doers and not just hearers of the Word. 

We start out as untrained immature Christians but the end goal of Christ is to mature us through the sanctification of the Holy Spirit to accomplish His will on earth. 

We need to keep our eyes on the goodness of God which strengthens us keeping always in mind that He has the power to change everything! 

God is in control.

When we focus on people’s faults, hope falters and discouragement follows. But when we concentrate on the Lord, even the darkest hours can be filled with the peace that He gives.

In this letter Paul proclaims the relevance of Christ Jesus to every area of the believer’s life. In the writer’s words, Jesus “became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption”. Paul goes on to assert that Jesus is living out His life in the world through the church. According to Paul, we are the body of Christ with individual gifts. As we discover our gifts and invest them in mutual ministry, Jesus continues to touch the world for which He died.

1 Corinthians 1:4

⁴ I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, ⁵ that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, ⁶ even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, ⁷ so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁸ who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, 

Ephesians 4:1

that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory. 

1 Thessalonians 2:12

even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 

Romans 3:22

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

1 Thessalonians 5:23

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ; 

Philippians 1:6