Christ Is Everything You’re Not | 1 Corinthians 1:30-31

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Our text today is 1 Corinthians 1:30-31.

There’s a quiet pressure most people feel — the pressure to be enough.

1. Strong enough.
2. Wise enough.
3. Disciplined enough.
4. Spiritual enough.
5. Successful enough.

And when we’re not? We hide it. Or we hustle to make up for it.

Paul ends this opening chapter with a truth that cuts through all that pressure:

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” — 1 Corinthians 1:30–31

Everything you’re trying to be on your own?
Christ already is for you.

You don’t become wise by trying harder —
Christ is your wisdom.

You don’t become righteous by earning it —
Christ is your righteousness.

You don’t become holy by sheer effort —
Christ is your sanctification.

You don’t redeem your past with better days ahead —
Christ is your redemption.

He is everything you’re not.
And everything you can’t be without Him.

And Paul says this so you’ll stop doing the one thing that ruins your joy:

Stop boasting in yourself. Start boasting in Him.

Because the gospel flips the script:
Your weaknesses are not liabilities — they’re invitations.
Your limitations are not failures — they’re reminders.
Your shortcomings are not final — they’re places Jesus fills.

This whole chapter has been Paul saying,
“Look at how God works…
and look at how God chooses…
and look at who God saves…”

And now he says,
“Look at why.”

So no one can boast.
And no one can say,
“Look what I did.”

It’s all Christ.
It’s always been Christ.
It will always be Christ.

Christ is everything you’re not —and everything you need.

DO THIS:

Take five minutes today and thank Jesus out loud for being each of these in your life:

1. your wisdom
2. your righteousness
3. your sanctification
4. your redemption

Name them slowly. Let gratitude reset your heart.

ASK THIS:

1. Which of these four truths do you most need to rest in today?
2. Where are you still trying to “boast” in your own strength?
3. What changes when you truly see Christ as your righteousness?

PRAY THIS:

Jesus, You are everything I can’t be without You. Be my wisdom, my righteousness, my sanctification, and my redemption today. Amen.

PLAY THIS:

“Yet Not I But Through Christ in Me”