Laborers with and for God

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord. We thank God for His goodness, His faithfulness, lovingkindness and tendermercies. He truly is our Rock.

Primary Text

“For we are fellow workmen (joint promoters, laborers together) with and for God; …” 1 Corinthians 3v9 (AMP)

As believers, we work with and for God. I am reminded of these verses: “All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” 2 Corinthians 5v18-21 (NIV). So we work with God, in the work He is doing. However, we also recognize His as the Lord, and the Master. We work for Him, not going about doing our own thing or establishing our own gospel. Acts 13v2 (AMP) for instance says “While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate now for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” What work is the Lord calling you unto today?

Supplementary Text

“Now God has us where He wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all His idea, and all His work. All we do is trust Him enough to let Him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join Him in the work He does, the good work He has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.” Ephesians 2v7-10 (MSG)

Prayer

Father God, we thank You for You are good and Your mercy endures forever. We thank You for You are working in us, giving us the desire and the power to do what pleases You in Jesus name, amen.