ENRICHED IN ALL UTTERANCE AND ALL KNOWLEDGE
"THAT YOU WERE ENRICHED IN EVERYTHING BY HIM IN all utterance and all knowledge."
1 Corinthians 1:5 (NKJV)
Comment: One of the mistakes that people usually make in the Christian fold is, they easily equate eloquence or fervency to spirituality. The Corinthian believers were said to be enriched by God in all utterance and all knowledge, but a lot of flaws were found in them.
a. They were said to be carnal, babies, and immature (1 Corinthians 3:1-4).
b. There was contentions; divisions or factions among them (1 Corinthians 1:11).
IN short, they had myriad of issues or problems which they were grappling with; incests, litigations, marital problems, issues on the Lord's supper, and a number of other things (1 Corinthians 5:1; 7:1; 11:27-30).
Fervency; being vocal or oratorical in the preaching or teaching of the Word of God, should not be equated with spiritual maturity. Someone might be fervent or eloquent and oratorical yet not deep in the spiritual things.
There are talkers whose depths in God are shallow—they are not deep in the things of God, the practice of the Bible. Such people can talk, they are born-talkers; but lack depth in God, also lacking in self-discipline and decorum. You should not take them for their words, they would disappoint you. Such believers have let God down severally.
If you are a talker who lacks depth in God, I will enjoin you to focus more on the doing of whatever you are stirred to do than talking without any commitment in your heart to follow through on whatever you said. Wisdom demands that you do not talk much on what you wanted to do, but let your results speak for you: "EVEN A FOOL IS COUNTED WISE WHEN HE HOLDS HIS PEACE; WHEN HE SHUTS HIS LIPS, HE IS CONSIDERED PERCEPTIVE" (Proverbs 17:28 NKJV).
READ: Proverbs 29:11
Stop idle words (Matthew 12:36). Always ask God to give you words that would edify or bless people If you had to talk.
Peace.