Who gives the growth…

 

Who gives the growth….

There can be a certain amount of pride when we see growth…

We plant, water…but God made it all…the air, the sunshine, the soil, the nutrients…God really made the growth…we may get to help here and there…and even through this snow, I see the fruit buds increasing, daffodil leaves poking out of the ground…oh, I dug the holes, but I didn’t make the trees, the bulbs…those were created and supplied to me…I get to stand back and encourage, weed a bit, add water, fertilizer here and there, but, God gives the growth…

The same with people…Paul talks about him planting, a colleague, Apollos watered, but, God gave the growth in the people they ministered with…Paul spoke of being God’s fellow workers…and we each have a purpose planned out for us in the kingdom by the Ultimate Planner…humbly, we have the opportunity to be a worker, planting, watering…

The best thing? Seeing the fruit…the lives around us, our lives changed, transformed…from the seed planted to fruit born…the Word …

Thank YOU….

 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.

1Cor.3.6-9ESV

 I planted, Apollos watered, but God [all the while] was causing the growth.  So neither is the one who plants nor the one who waters anything, but [only] God who causes the growth.  He who plants and he who waters are one [in importance and esteem, working toward the same purpose]; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.  For we are God’s fellow workers [His servants working together]; you are God’s cultivated field [His garden, His vineyard], God’s building.

1Cor.3.6-9AMP

 Who 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.

 1Cor.3.5-9MSG

The Change in me…

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