“For We Are God’s Fellow Workers; You Are God’s Field . . . .”

“For We Are God’s Fellow Workers; You Are God’s Field . . . .”

What an extraordinary truth! What a comparison! What a huge difference! Even an essential difference!

Some of them were God’s fellow workers, companions. They worked together with God for the salvation and edification of souls. All those in the church of Corinth in Greece were something totally different than fellow workers at that point in time. They were God’s field, a piece of ground that needed to be cultivated by God’s fellow workers. The ground is incapable of doing this itself.

This is how we all begin. However, it is of vital importance that it does not continue like this throughout our entire time of grace.

The opportunity is there for everyone who has forsaken everything and has thus been accepted into Jesus Christ’s school of disciples, who has unreservedly and wholeheartedly decided to serve God and man, to grow and develop into God’s true and good fellow workers!

It is unimaginably great and glorious, but God loves all such people so undeservedly much! Completely surrender to God and believe in Him!

Be perfectly faithful in everything! Seek to be thoroughly saved in all areas! Give your all to achieve that goal!

There is another expression for the same thing in the same verse: “You are God’s building.” Every one of the church in Corinth was a piece of material, a stone or a beam. God’s fellow workers—Paul and the others—were those who, together with God proceeded to build.

They were saved and transformed to such an extent that they understood how to go about it. Think that such opportunities are available to us!

However, it is utterly impossible to achieve anything as exalted as this through laziness, superficiality, or indifference.

“Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.” 1 Cor. 8:1.

Thousands of instructors arise more easily than one fellow worker or someone with a father’s mind or a single true and good shepherd!

How terribly serious this is!