Contemplative Bible Reading

1 Corinthians 4:4 (New Living Translation)

4 My conscience is clear, but that doesn’t prove I’m right…

Paul is writing to Christians in Corinth about his explaining of God’s mysteries. Paul is trying to be helpful. Paul is trying to be correct. Paul is making all the good faith efforts he can.

Paul, being human like the rest of us, may be incorrect on some things he does.

Paul was a good fella. Most people liked him. Sometimes he “rubbed people the wrong way” in how he did things and what he said. And sometimes Paul was just plain wrong.

It is possible to be a good fella and be just plain wrong at the same time. Being wrong doesn’t make us bad; it just makes us wrong on this thing at this time.

I am wrong on plenty of things at plenty of times. I keep trying. I keep writing. (I keep being wrong.) God forgives me. The grace of God covers all my occasions of being wrong.

Thank you God. Help me to keep trying.