oh my

1 Corinthians 4

10 Our dedication to Christ makes us look like fools,

      but you claim to be so wise in Christ!

We are weak,

     but you are so powerful!

You are honored,

     but we are ridiculed.


11 Even now we go hungry and thirsty,

        and we don't have enough clothes to keep warm.

We are often beaten

     and have no home.


12 We work wearily with our own hands to earn our living.

We bless those who curse us.

We are patient with those who abuse us.

13 We appeal gently when evil things are said about us.

Yet we are treated like the world's garbage, like everybody's trash—right up to the present moment.



Paul was having a rough go of it.

I couldn't help but think our prissy our "faith walk" here in America is compared to his, or now anywhere else in the world.

I wonder how many of us would be Christ followers if following Him brought that kind of life for us & our families?