thought as of yesterday...we are incredibly social beings, right? so why is it so pertinant that we also have our alone time too? because i know if i don't get mine for a couple days, i start to get testy. i think i need more alone time than most people. and i don't even know how to use it right yet...
thats why i think i'm going to try doing my...i don't know what to call it. daliy devotionals are not the right words, because i don't do it daily, and i'm sure as heck not devoted to it as of now. hence the unfaithful theme. because we're all human, right...?
1 corinthians 3: 1-9
paul wrote this letter because the church of corinth was starting to conform to the world surrounding it. he addressed their faults and gave advice to help with there commitment to Jesus.
hm. sounds familiar.
"1Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly—mere infants in Christ. 2I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. 3You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men? 4For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere men?
5What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. 9For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building."
5What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. 9For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building."
what first comes to mind when i read the first paragraph, i think of quarreling between churches today. i mean i don't really know how much it happens, but i know when i was little in catholic school i would try to justify that our way of doing church was better and what other churches did was somewhat weird and possibly wrong. i think people today who have not grown individually with Christ still salute to their church/denomination instead. thats why people call christians "sheltered" because they dont get out into the world and speak like scriptures tell them to. idk. they are too busy with other unimportant thoughts/things most likely. but who am i to speak for when i probably do the same thing?
i know this for a fact that i am still an infant in Christ. for one, i know i sometimes get caught up in the "trend" that we make of christianity at times. okay sweet, you like this christian band and you go to church often and you get a God-related tattoo (i'm NOT trying to condemn anyone...this is just how i see things, and i am JUST as guilty). why do you continue to make sex jokes, make fun of other people, have a closed mind about everything because your opinion matters most for some reason, act selfishly...etc etc.
like i said, i'm guilty of all of that also.
why did someone have to make a "trend" out of it? being a christian is supposed to be a life-threatening decision; following Jesus should mean potentially following him up a hill to a cross (as francis chan beautifully worded in a book called crazy love, you should check it out). i dont know, maybe i'm just thinking too much of it. its an awesome thing because i think it attracts a less-likely crowd to God, but i think we need to watch it when we start getting really comfortable in our own little group...
remember, i'm the hypocrite here. and theres many other reasons why i'm an infant. but i won't dwell on them because that won't help me grow up.
second paragraph has a lot i could talk about. i guess the basic message is to not idolize people because of what they bring to the table. footnotes from my study Bible says that we are all team workers, there are no superstars at this task of life. God picks special gifts for each of us, not one is better than the other. it all goes to God. "so neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow."
thats what everything pretty much boils down to in what is supposed to be christianity. glorify God.
cool.
"[we] are God's field, God's building."
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