For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere men? What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labour.
1 Corinthians 3:4-8
What do we consider the attitudes in this?
People look for someone to follow. They look for someone they believe can lead them further, they build those they choose up on a peddle stool, only to find they are human and make mistakes. It is then the choice, either, to turn away from that person they followed seeking someone new to follow, which in itself can turn to rejecting that person as though that person let them down. Or on recognising people are only human continues to stand by them because in the end it’s Jesus the true one to follow, not man.
Another difficulty for others is that they cannot ever meet a standard set by the person who looks at one higher than any other. For someone to step in the shoes of one being followed it can become impossible. The person that takes over can never compare to the one being followed, not because that person is wrong in that place but because it is a mind set (Beliefs that affect somebody’s attitude, behaviour and outlook) that that person can never meet the set standard.
Again the words:
1 Corinthians 3:4-8
What do we consider the attitudes in this?
People look for someone to follow. They look for someone they believe can lead them further, they build those they choose up on a peddle stool, only to find they are human and make mistakes. It is then the choice, either, to turn away from that person they followed seeking someone new to follow, which in itself can turn to rejecting that person as though that person let them down. Or on recognising people are only human continues to stand by them because in the end it’s Jesus the true one to follow, not man.
Another difficulty for others is that they cannot ever meet a standard set by the person who looks at one higher than any other. For someone to step in the shoes of one being followed it can become impossible. The person that takes over can never compare to the one being followed, not because that person is wrong in that place but because it is a mind set (Beliefs that affect somebody’s attitude, behaviour and outlook) that that person can never meet the set standard.
Again the words:
Because you see me with no honour, in your eyes. You expect me to be disloyal.
It doesn’t mean a person is without honour or that the person is disloyal, it just means that’s the way someone has chosen to see the person.
Again we can put someone on such a high position that anyone else cannot reach the standard, which doesn’t mean they cannot or are wrong, it’s the way that has been chosen.
Promoting someone, putting them in a place above God can only end in discouragement for the one promoting, when that person lets you down. There is only one who should be lifted up and glorified, that is Christ Jesus. It has been that God has removed those that people promoted so as to turn them towards Him again instead of man.
Promoting someone as though they are needed above all others and that they can only achieve what God wants takes away that God can move in any willing heart. We hear of people who God is clearly working in or a place God is working in and then look at things as though only that person can bring God’s blessing or we can only receive God’s blessing by going to that place, when God would say, “I can use you, anyone with a willing heart, and that can be anywhere, right where you are.”
In the KJV we are called to Esteem One Another as More Important – Philippians 2:3 NIV
In humility consider others better than yourselves.
Esteeming means – regard, respect, admiration, high regard, good opinion, value, appreciate, prize, cherish, hold dear, admire
God asks us to love as He loves, but there is only one we should lift up high above all others and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Again we can put someone on such a high position that anyone else cannot reach the standard, which doesn’t mean they cannot or are wrong, it’s the way that has been chosen.
Promoting someone, putting them in a place above God can only end in discouragement for the one promoting, when that person lets you down. There is only one who should be lifted up and glorified, that is Christ Jesus. It has been that God has removed those that people promoted so as to turn them towards Him again instead of man.
Promoting someone as though they are needed above all others and that they can only achieve what God wants takes away that God can move in any willing heart. We hear of people who God is clearly working in or a place God is working in and then look at things as though only that person can bring God’s blessing or we can only receive God’s blessing by going to that place, when God would say, “I can use you, anyone with a willing heart, and that can be anywhere, right where you are.”
In the KJV we are called to Esteem One Another as More Important – Philippians 2:3 NIV
In humility consider others better than yourselves.
Esteeming means – regard, respect, admiration, high regard, good opinion, value, appreciate, prize, cherish, hold dear, admire
God asks us to love as He loves, but there is only one we should lift up high above all others and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
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