My Only Fellow Workers Who Have Proved to Be a Comfort to Me

My Only Fellow Workers Who Have Proved to Be a Comfort to Me

Have you ever paused in earnest before this serious statement? What about all the others? This does not just apply to preachers, but to those whom the apostle Paul called his fellow workers. He certainly did not consider just anyone his fellow worker!

Peter makes a very significant statement: “If the righteous one is scarcely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?” 1 Pet. 4:18. If a person is not thoroughly righteous in his life, and besides preaching the gospel, he also seeks his own and is busy attempting to defend his own honor (for example) and is easily offended and sins against the brothers once in a while without making amends, etc., he is far from being up to standard. Then he causes grief instead of being a comfort for every true fellow worker of God.

However, at that time there were also those who were a comfort for the apostle, those whom he could always remember with great joy and deep thankfulness.

Think how great it is when this is the state of God’s fellow workers. They are the ones who are always in the right state of mind and in the right spirit and who are always on the right wavelength! You know you can always trust them; they never take the wrong stand. It can also go well with those who do not measure up to this standard, but they are in a different class. Such people give you alternating joy and grief.

May everyone strive always to be a comfort and joy.