Therefore we are comforted.
And besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. 14 For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. That may come to mind to those of us who have closely studied the church in Corinth and concluded that it is a broken church. Here we see language that we might consider contradictory to all the previous issues in the church, the division, the rampant sin in the body, and the false teaching. Here though, we see that if the church were really all that bad, perhaps Paul would have closed it. Paul reports that Titus was refreshed by them and it caused Paul to rejoice. This is not a new declaration. Paul began each letter to them with praise that they are in fellowship by grace.
No church is beyond repair by God and no church closes without his command. Take comfort in the Lord and perhaps people will see that comfort and be comforted. The problems between the church and Paul remained but we can learn from this aside that even the most wayward can reflect the grace and comfort of Christ.
Dear Lord, thank you for the grace and comfort found only in Jesus Christ. May others find this source of comfort in an uncomfortable world. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Pastor Brad Boyer
Cape Community Church