1 Corinthians 3
1-4But for right now, friends, I'm completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You're acting like infants in relation to Christ, capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I'll nurse you since you don't seem capable of anything more. As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way? When one of you says, "I'm on Paul's side," and another says, "I'm for Apollos," aren't you being totally infantile?5-9Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us—servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working.
(1 Cor 3)
I don't know if its is good or bad to know that church bickering has been going on from the start of the church. That people were hard to get motivated and go beyond themselves and look at the greater good.
I know that in my own life it is hard to take change and I get cough up in doing things my own way, and I know there are times when God is challenging me to do something new and different. It's just easier to do it the way that we always have.
What is it today that God is trying to push you to do, that you can't seem move on? Are you are trying to stay in your one comfort zone and refusing to budge. God had great things in store for you today, but you have to get out there and be used by GOD!!
It's interesting how some think it necessary to micromanage others into fitting their own personal goals and think how their end goal would be pleasing to God instead of spending time with him in the first place and letting him do the changing.
ReplyDeleteIn John 15:5-6 Jesus says that "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
I really focus in on the "apart from me you can do nothing" statement Jesus makes here. We can try really hard to keep things going on our own accord and on the surface to others it might look like a successful program, but we're actually fighting what God really wants! Doing God's will shouldn't stress us out. It should be something where there is a natural flow of growth. It seems like it should be a no-brainer. But as Paul mentions in 1 Corinthians 3:19 that the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight.