The Fire
Will Test What Sort Of Work
Each Has Done
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. Each builder must choose with care how to build 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.
When the words of Scripture remain in
us, they keep us from taking the destructive way of sin. Jesus said that when
His words abide in us, we will bear much fruit. We will become givers, not
takers.
As Christians, let’s be known not for
the goods we consume, but for the good fruit we produce.
A selfless
life reaps an eternal harvest.
Our Daily
Bread –