September  2009

1 Corinthians 3:9   For we are laborers together with God.

The ancient city of Corinth was in Southern Greece and was one of the most famous ports in Europe.  When Paul arrived in Corinth he found a population of over a half million people. The harbors and streets were filled with ships and people from all over the world. The reputation of Corinth was bad with the nights and days filled with drunkenness and revelry.  Sin was rampant among all classes.  Paul came to the godless, wicked, heathen city to show them a “more excellent way of life”.  “ I am determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified”.  Paul spent eighteen months teaching and preaching the Gospel. After leaving Corinth, he received news of division in the Corinth Church. The people were following men instead of following Christ. He wrote and rebuked them, telling them that Paul, Cephas, and Apollos were nothing, and that Christ was all.  Paul tells the Corinthian Churches  “ we are all laborers together with God”.

Maybe today our churches need to learn this lesson anew. People are working for a living, some to buy a house, some to educate their children, some retired, but few people can truthfully say, “I am working with God and for God!”

The first Monday of each September we celebrate Labor Day.  Every day should be Labor Day for Christians. Every day we should be living for Christ and witnessing for Him.

We need to look at being laborers in the Kingdom of God.  There is so much to do and so little time in which to do it.  The fields are white unto harvest! Jesus said, “ My Father worketh hitherto and I work”. He said, “The Kingdom’s business requires haste”.  He said, “ As the Father sent me, even so send I you”.  He also said, “Take up your cross and follow me”!  If we follow in His footsteps we will certainly be active in His cause and that’s the way I see it.

iHs

Griff

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iHs

Griff

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