Jesus is our diamond.

Jesus is the carbon based incarnation of the divine transformed by the steady pressure of God’s endless love into the brightest Morning Star Diamond ever created.

Jesus is our diamond.

Jesus is Carbon Pure and Perfect, the pure and perfect way to the Father, our only eternal security. But there are many ways to look at Jesus, just as there are many ways to look at a diamond.

This is what Paul was getting at in our epistle reading for this morning. Paul is urging the Corinthian Christians to stop their puny, petty squabbles over perceived differences and instead to embrace the greater unity that bound them together. These Corinthian Christians had benefitted from different teachers, hailed from different backgrounds, were of different generations, and drew from dif…