All Things Are Yours
Living Big in a World That Loves to Shrink You
Welcome to today’s reflection.
Sometimes the Bible doesn’t whisper or explain.
Sometimes it drops a sentence so expansive it refuses to stay polite.
This reflection explores one of Paul’s boldest claims and what happens when faith stops shrinking the world and starts opening it up again.
There’s this phrase Paul drops at the end of 1 Corinthians:
“All things are yours.”
It’s huge. Massive. Almost too big. It’s expansive, buoyant, joyous, life-giving and audacious. It’s so ballsy you can’t miss it, and Paul says it on purpose.
See, his friends in Corinth were stuck. Petty. Divisive. Small. They were bickering about which teacher they liked more, who was better, who was more “right.” Classic small human behaviour. Paul’s doing everything he can to shake them out of that smallness. He’s urging them to celebrate whatever truth they find, wherever they find it, through whoever shares it.
But Paul doesn’t stop there. He goes cosmic: Life. Death. The present. The future. The whole world.
It’s like he’s trying to blow their minds. Because, in his view, it all belongs to them.
