Our Part In The Miracle

1 Corinthians 3:5-9 “Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us–-servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It’s not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God’s field in which we are working.” ~MSG

Paul is saying some good stuff here. We may plant seeds in the soil. Watering them as needed. But we still wait on God with his creative power for the seeds to grow into the flowers or vegetables they are to be. Let’s take this concept into what we do when we attempt to help our brothers and sisters in need. Whether it be trying to help someone financially or someone with an addiction, we must realize as servants there is only so much we can do under our own power.

When we do not realize this, we get caught up with unnecessary feelings that come from anxiety. Anxiety that feeds our want and need for ‘success’. We want to feel like we have accomplished victory in our loved one’s shortcomings. But that is a victory we cannot achieve under our own power, In other words, not by ourselves. We must always understand that we are just servants who plant and water. We can plant the ideas and direction in helping our loved ones get financially independent. We can water the seeds we have planted in our loved ones going through addiction. But, physically that is as far as we can go as servants in the field of our Lord. After this we pray.

We pray to God because it is Him who has the power of growth to be given to our loved ones. It is God who has the power of healing for those emotionally wounded. Asking God to guide us in doing our part in this miracle that is about to happen, is important. Then, we listen and follow God’s guidance. It is the power of the King that this miracle, the miracle that will come, will be from Him and Him alone. Our loved one’s will need this wisdom because this is what they will lean on to battle their demonic situations. This is what they will need to feed their spirits so that they will have ‘Holy Spirit help’ in battling their fleshly desires.

Our part is to plant seeds and water those seeds with spiritual guidance. But it is God “...who gives the growth…’ of their strength and desire to live righteously. So, don’t blame yourselves. Instead focus that energy on praying for guidance as you do your part in lending assistance to our loved ones. After all, it is God who brought you together with them in the first place. He knows what He is doing. Let it be God who will give you both growth, through His miracle.

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