This world would not be the same without flowers. They make
life so much more beautiful. I recently learned in science that wild flowers
don’t need someone to plant them, but they can self-produce. Wild flowers don’t
even require anyone to water them; all they need to grow is God’s gardening
skills.
So many times I think that I am needed. I think, “So many
people are going to hell. I need to
do something and help. This world needs me.
My friends need me. God needs me.” This last month my family has been
going through 1 Corinthians. This morning we read 1 Corinthians 3:5-7:
“What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through
whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. I planted,
Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one who
plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.”
Who am I? I’m just the child who was given the privilege to
plant and water the seed, but God is
the real amazing one. He takes the
souls of helpless slaves of sin, and He
frees them and makes them His
children and lavishes them with His
grace. He clothes them in His righteousness and cleanses them with
His blood that He shed on our behalf.
If God chooses to use the ministry of Compassion in Action
to lead some lost sinners to Himself then may God be praised. If He chooses to not
use us at all, then may God be praised. He is the only one who deserves glory…
for everything!
If my brothers and I finished building a kitchen, and we
display our building to the happy new owners and they say, “Wow, that’s such a
great hammer you have; it did such a great job getting those nails in the board!”,
it would be weird because we did all
the work, and we used our muscles and
energy to use the hammer to hit the nail in. The hammer was just a tool. And
that’s what we are: The hammers in God’s hand. He is using us to build His
Church.
My prayer is that we would use every opportunity given to us
to be used by God for His work, and
that it would all be for His glory,
not our own.
“According to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will
not be put to shame in anything, but that in with all boldness, Christ will
even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. For to
me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.” – Philippians 1:20-21
