Basking in the "Yes"!
"For in [Christ] every one of God’s promises is a ‘Yes.’ For this reason it is through him that we say the ‘Amen’, to the glory of God." - 2 Corinthians 1:20 We are reading here the first little bit of what our Bibles break down as 2 Corinthians. This is Paul's letter to the church/community of faith in Corinth and both 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians are likely really just one letter, not two separate books like our Bibles tend to separate them. Some of the correspondence from the Corinthian congregations are lost, we don't have those manuscripts, but we do have what is left of Paul's reply. In this first chapter of the continuation of the letter, Paul and Timothy are writing to the community to tell them they are going to be delayed in coming to see them. They did not plan for this to happen, and they could not have said, "Yes, we are coming" and then "No, we are not." Thus, in Christ every promise that they have, or th