Daily Sacrifice, August 31 (1:9)
“God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord” —1 Corinthians 1:9.
FELLOWSHIP involves the sharing of like interests and service in common for the glory of the one great Head of the Church. It is a fellowship of life and the Spirit, and cannot, therefore, be forced or built up by mere human effort or loyalty to certain ideals. It is something spontaneous, which those only know who have fellowship with the Father and with His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Into it every new convert is welcomed, and from the moment he receives divine life he begins to share in its blessings, whether at first he fully realizes it or not. Unsaved people have no part nor lot in it (Acts 8:21), for “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3). It is God Himself who asks, “What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?” (2 Cor. 6:14).
—Charles Wesley.