Paul reminds the Corinthians that their shaky season doesn’t cancel God’s steady heart. The Christian life starts and continues because God Himself calls us—not just to agree with truths, but to share life with His Son, where faith becomes fellowship and doctrine becomes nearness.

God’s Faithfulness Is the Ground Beneath You

If your week feels inconsistent—strong one day, stumbling the next—this verse puts the weight where it belongs: on God. “God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” (1 Corinthians 1:9) Your grip on Him fluctuates; His grip on you does not. He isn’t improvising with your soul. He is keeping His word, keeping His people, keeping His purposes.

That’s why Scripture keeps training our hearts to look at His character before we look at our performance. “Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.” (Hebrews 10:23) And when you wake up feeling like you’re starting over again, you’re not meeting a tired God: “They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!” (Lamentations 3:23)

Called into Fellowship, Not Mere Belief

Notice what you’re called into: fellowship with Jesus. Not a distant admiration, not a once-a-week nod, but a shared life—communion. Christianity isn’t just that Jesus saves you from sin; it’s that Jesus brings you to Himself. John said it plainly: “And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.” (1 John 1:3)

That changes how you interpret everyday moments. Temptation becomes a summons to stay close. Loneliness becomes an invitation to talk to a present Lord. Fruitfulness stops being a self-improvement project and becomes abiding: “Remain in Me, and I will remain in you… Apart from Me you can do nothing.” (John 15:4–5) You’re not trying to manufacture spiritual life; you’re learning to live connected.

Live Today Like You Belong to Him

If God called you, then today isn’t about proving you deserve to be here; it’s about responding to the One who put you here. Your next faithful step—repentance, forgiveness, obedience, prayer—is not a payment plan. It’s participation. And when you feel unfinished (you are), remember the direction of God’s work: “He who began a good work in you will continue to perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 1:6)

So take fellowship seriously. Don’t reduce it to a vague feeling; practice it. Open the Word expecting to hear from Someone, not merely learn something. Gather with the church as a person who belongs, not a guest who might be asked to leave. And lean on the full, Trinitarian kindness God gives you: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” (2 Corinthians 13:14)

Father, thank You that You are faithful and that You have called me into fellowship with Your Son. Help me abide in Christ today—turn my heart from distractions, and lead me into willing obedience. Amen.

The Bible was called forth by the moral emergency occasioned by the fall of man. It is the voice of God calling men home from the wilds of sin; it is a road map for returning prodigals; it is instruction in righteousness, light in darkness, information about God and man and life and death and heaven and hell. In it God warns, commands, rebukes, promises, encourages. In it He offers salvation and life through His Eternal Son. And the destiny of each one depends upon the response he or she makes to the voice of the Word.

Because the Bible is the kind of book it is there can be no place for the detached, appraising attitude in our approach to it. ''O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.'' God's Word is not to be enjoyed as one might enjoy a Beethoven symphony or a poem by Wordsworth. It demands immediate action, faith, surrender, committal. Until it has secured these it has done nothing positive for the reader, but it has increased his responsibility and deepened the judgment that must follow.

I will sacrifice unto Thee with the voice of thanksgiving. - Jonah 2:9

There are many vague and oppressive anxieties that come and cast a shadow over our hearts, that, if we could once define and put into plain words, we should find that we vaguely fancied them a great deal larger than they were, and that the shadow they flung was immensely longer than the thing that flung it. Put your anxieties into definite speech. It will reduce their proportions to your own apprehension very often. Speaking them, even to a man who may be able to do little to help, eases them wonderfully. Put them into definite speech to God, and there are very few of them that will survive.

"By prayer and supplication with thanksgiving." That thanksgiving is always in place. If one only considers what he has from God, and realizes that whatever he has he has received from the hands of Divine love, thanksgiving is appropriate in any circumstances. Do you remember when Paul was in gaol at the very city to which this letter (Philippians) went, with his back bloody with the rod and his feet fast in the stocks, how then "he and Silas prayed and sang praises to God"? Therefore the obedient earthquake came and set them loose. Perhaps it was some reminiscence of that night which moved him to say to the church that knew the story - of which perhaps the gaoler was still a member - " By prayer and supplication with thanksgiving make your requests known unto God."

One aching nerve can monopolize our attention and make us unconscious of the health of all the rest of the body; so, a single sorrow or loss obscures many mercies. We are like men that live in a narrow alley in some city, with great buildings on either side towering high above their heads, and only a strip of sky visible. If we see up in that strip a cloud, we complain and behave as if the whole heavens, right away round the three hundred and sixty degrees of the horizon, were black with tempest. But we see only a little strip, and there is a great deal of blue in the sky; however, there may be a cloud in the patch that we see above our heads, from the alley where we live. Everything, rightly understood, that God sends to men is a cause of thanksgiving; therefore, "in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God."

"Casting all your anxieties upon Him," says Peter, " for He " - is not anxious; that dark cloud does not rise much above the earth- but, "He careth for you." And that loving guardianship and tender care is the one shield, armed with which we can smile at the poisoned darts of anxiety which would else fester in our hearts and, perhaps, kill. " Be careful for nothing" - an impossibility unless "in everything" we make "our requests known unto God."