My Passion, Our Tasks, One Purpose
1 Corinthians 3 1:15
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.
10By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. 11For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. 14If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. 15If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.
My passion is that we, you and I are completing our assigned tasks for our common purpose.
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
We all have different tasks. We all have the same purpose. Love God and Love others. That is our common calling like Pastor Mike shared at Tehillah.
So let's start small. Lets start with giving it all over to God. :) yeah real small - NOT.
A test for you. The "are you ok?" check.
Bang your knee really hard accidently. If you blow your cork, chances are you have too much on your mind. (Why would I know this? yeah you guessed it.) If you can live in the moment with only the thoughts for that moment then you will be better able to focus on the situation / pain and deal with it.
Often times the issue is not the issue. Yes it hurts. Yes it was the last straw but if it was the only straw it wouldn't be as big of an issue.
"the fire will test the quality of each man's work."
Let God get to your heart. Let him hold everything. "I want to be the one to hold you high, I want to be the one to give you glory."(the song in my head)
I love you. I'm living, learning this. Glad to walk and share and learn with you.
Alanne