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. (I Corinthians 3:6-9 MSG) Each of us has an assignment, given to us by God himself, meant for US to uniquely fulfill. While we may not be church planters like Paul was, or even the ones to 'water the crop' that has been planted like Apollos may have been doing, we have a task we are called to fulfill. Each day brings a new chance to fulfill that task - will we be available to serve as God directs us to serve? Remember, we 'do' what God asks us to do, but it is his Spirit who 'backs' that action on our part. We are his servants - being useful as he sees fit to us...
The Spirit, not content to flit around on the surface, dives into the depths of God, and brings out what God planned all along. Who ever knows what you’re thinking and planning except you yourself? The same with God—except that he not only knows what he’s thinking, but he lets us in on it. God offers a full report on the gifts of life and salvation that he is giving us. We don’t have to rely on the world’s guesses and opinions. We didn’t learn this by reading books or going to school; we learned it from God, who taught us person-to-person through Jesus, and we’re passing it on to you in the same firsthand, personal way. (I Corinthians 2:10-13 MSG) God's Spirit takes what we cannot understand with purely human knowledge and brings it into our hearts and minds so we can begin to not only comprehend it, but act upon it. All of God's scripture is meant to be actionable - either we do as it says, or we avoid what it says we are to avoid. There is nothing within scripture that is th...