6:1-2 Paul is working to help the Corinthians establish a sincere faith. For until the organizers understand themselves, their faith and become sincere and consistent in upholding it, they will be ineffective in helping others. Paul's advice is helpful to us as individuals also because a spiritual student must understand that although we have social systems here on earth, it is child's play compared to our spiritual responsibilities. We should be able and willing to diffuse difficult situations and disagreements without tantrums and lawsuits and anger. It isn't always possible but we should always work to resolve our own issues in sincere and concise ways.
6:3 God is prepping us, is allow us to prepare ourselves, for greater responsibility beyond this earth. These lessons here, these life experiences, are meant to embolden us in compassion and creation. If we cannot handle these tasks here of maintaining friendships, relationships, upholding justice, lighting truth, how will we ever graduate?
6:4 There should be no one more qualified than you to solve your own issues. We should not delegate our work to people who are less capable of doing it. Spiritual wisdom is stronger, more agile than the knowledge and system of mankind. Let your faith discern avenues of escape from tribulation and routes to arrival at justice, compassion and truth.
6:5-6 It is unbelievable to Paul that a spiritual student, a child of God, a human cannot trust or organize themselves enough to handle the circumstances of their own lives. Is life sometimes difficult? Yes. Are we entitled to feel overwhelmed sometimes? Yes. However life is never more difficult than we can handle when we choose not to walk alone. We are never entitled to give ourselves over to other to control or fix... that privilege of standing back up is ours.
6:7-10 Paul is frustrated by the chaos and unkindness of humans who cannot resolve issues between themselves. For this reason we must not be stubborn and hypocritical, we must be open and sincere: able to accept when we are wrong, able to have patience and humility when we are right.
There is no gain, Paul explains, when a person chases wealth, desire, power, fame. Spiritual wisdom, compassion and sincerity are eternal, abundant, the value of life.
All of God's children are loved and accepted. True, unkind behavior is not received by God. Discern for yourselves what behavior is unkind and what behavior is an expression of love (God's most valued commodity).
6:11 Never forget that we each, individual, work and grow and learn throughout life. We do not begin perfect, we do not reach perfection. Always remember that you also have room for improvement. Remember that you are fallible and let it remind you that so is everyone else. Remembering that you and others are not perfect is not an excuse for you or them not to do their best. It is a method for us to remember our humanity and our compassion so that our flaws do not become our character.
6:12 Our freedom on earth is not permission to do corrupt things or live unkindly. We the option of doing so because God is fair, but those things are not what we are meant for. Paul vows not to be a slave to the greed in the world. Likewise we should never give up the authority of ourselves. We should be in control of our patience, our growth, our wisdom, our humility.
Giving into the temptation of anger, greed, vengeance, jealously is the detriment of ourselves. Be in control.
6:13-14 We were created with love to create love. We were created with compassion to create compassion. We were not created without intention, meant and let loose to procure fame, wealth or power. The order of the Spirit, the compassionate intention of divine-nature will remain established and progressive toward its intention; corruption will burn up, disappear in its wake.
6:15-16 Think metaphorically here: God created our souls and our bodies for great accomplishments of love and justice and we should respect them as such. Our own bodies as well as others'. We become what we associate with and what we allow. This statement is not a judgement on a person or specific lifestyle but instead is an encouragement to be more productive, more integral to the whole intention of the universe.
6:18-19 Our actions and interactions and thoughts define us. Respect yourself. Achieve. Create. God has create you, specifically, to reach your highest potential, your greatest happiness. You have the potential to be instrumental in the world. Awaken to your purpose.
6:20 This experience of life on earth in these humans bodies was expensive in that for God to allow us this opportunity, He had to allow us freedom. With our freedom, humans have created terrible acts of injustice and corruption. Life is not a game; our actions directly affect others. Do not waste your time here, this is a complex experience within a complex world among billions of complex hearts and minds.
Without this opportunity, we would not have ever had the chance to grow or the chance to create our own values and selves. God paid a great price to give us this life, value it. Bask in it. Thrive and prosper in it.
