Monday, July 3, 2017

We are God's fellow workers

1 Cor 3:1-9
You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you.
 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are Gods field, God's building.
It seems from these chapters that the groups were making invidious comparisons between Paul and the more eloquent Apollos. Paul, although a trained scholar, had had his troubles at Corinth.  A clear statement of God's message not style without substance, was his main concern.
But the Corinthians were infected with something of the spirit of nearby. Athens. They fancied themselves s thinkers and took pride in their supposed intellectual superiority. In fact, as Paul point out, their argumentative, judgmental attitude show the are still bound by  the world's way of thinking.
Why?
Christian is not a scholar, not one thinking mind, but a God's fellow workers. No one can boast to what he had done, but for God who have done.
Jealousy and quarreling among people shows that people are worldly.
Preaching gospel needs everyone to do his job, like planted the seed, and watered it But God made it grow.
How?
Be Humble and working with the Lord.Let my spirit life grow up more like Jesus.

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