My meditation on 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 took me to many different places and thoughts all while grounding my theology being cruciform in the relationship we have with Jesus. My phases of the meditation are broken up into four parts. First I did some pre-meditation preparation and prayer. The second part of the meditation involved the first twenty minutes of the hour where I truly tried to grasp what living cruciform meant. The third, and longest, portion of the meditation consisted of me going line by line through the text and applying what Paul was saying about living cruciform to my life. The final part was my response in worship.
Considering my pre-meditation thoughts and prayer, I was anxious before this exercise, that day had been long and I was worried about not being able to be extremely conscientious during the exercise. Prior to this meditation I read 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 and prayed that Holy Spirit would illuminate the passage for me, show me how to live cruciform, and where this should happen first. I began my meditation in the Talbot East prayer room but them moved to the second story Talbot garden as the prayer room became filled with people. I …show more content…
So entering into this meditation I only had rough a grasp on cruciform theology, and was really struggling to apply it to my life in any way that made sense or felt tangible. The meditation began as I read over the passage several times, building together a definition of cruciform based on what Paul said. As I read the passage, one of the first things that I realized was the outright necessity to live a cruciform life; which is a life centered on and living out of Christ’s crucifixion. The second insight I had during this portion of the meditation is that in God’s wisdom he has chosen to make the cross of Christ the way we can understand Him. Without truly knowing and loving the cross of Christ we can’t know God, we can only know things about