It’s Not About Us

It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering.  What’s important is that God makes the seed grow.  1 Corinthians 3:7 (NLT)

One sign that the flesh is at work is when we start to think more highly of people than we ought – when we think God’s purpose cannot be fulfilling unless specific people are doing the fulfilling.  You may have seen this happening in your own church.  When people don’t show up to service because their favorite minister isn’t preaching.  Or when one dance group isn’t supportive of another because they weren’t given the same opportunity to minister.  In our scripture today – Paul is reminding us that it’s not about us.  And if we want to grow beyond where we are today – we have to come to this realization.

Paul talks about two types of Christians – the carnal Christian and the Spiritual Christian.  Those who are carnal will always look to people and never grow beyond the limitations that are inherently in us.  Those who are spiritual look to God and grow beyond any expectation we could have ever imagined.

Today let us set our focus on God and not on those who are simply fulfilling what God has called them to do.  Let us start to grow beyond ourselves by first understanding that it’s not about us – but it’s all about God.