You Are God’s
Field,
God’s Building
What then is Apollos?
What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as
the Lord assigned to each. I planted. Apollos
watered, but God gave the growth. So neither the one who plants nor the one who
waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. The one who plants and
the one who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wages according
to the labor of each. For we are God’s servants, working together; you are
God’s field, God’s building.
According to the grace of God given to
me, like a skilled master builder, I laid a foundation, and someone else is
building on it. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has
been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the
foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw – the work of
each builder will become visible, for the Day will disclose it, because it will
be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each has done.
If what has been built on the foundation survives, the builder will receive a
reward. If the work is burned up, the builder will suffer loss; the builder
will be saved, but only as through fire.
Sometimes we may get discouraged
because what we are doing for the Lord seems unsuccessful. The members of our
own family are far from the Lord. The world we lift up to God in fervent
intercession grows increasingly violent and anti-Christian. All of this can add
up to deep soul-discouragement.
Do not allow discouragement to cause
you to quit. In God’s own time our work will bear fruit.
if you are
faithful where He has placed you.
Our Daily
Bread –