Labor Day
“And I, brethren,
could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto
babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye
were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal:
for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not
carnal, and walk as men? For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am
of Apollos; are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but
ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have
planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that
planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive
his own reward according to his own labour. For we are labourers together with
God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.”
(1 Corinthians 3:1-9)
Today’s Morsel: Labor Day pays tribute to the
contributions and achievements of American workers and is traditionally
observed on the first Monday in September. It was created by the labor
movement in the late 19th century and became a federal holiday in 1894.
The Apostle Paul
writing to the church at Corinth states that they were laborers together with
God and that they, the church, were God’s crop and God’s building. When
we work with God, everyone that we bring into the kingdom of God becomes a part
of the harvest that we were sent by Him to reap. Jesus said, “Say not ye,
There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto
you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to
harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life
eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And
herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap
that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into
their labours.”
(John 4:35-38) Are you working with
Christ? No work, no pay!
Sing: When He calls me, I will answer.
When He calls me, I will hear. When He calls me, I will answer.
I’ll be somewhere working for my Lord. I’ll be somewhere working, I’ll be
somewhere working, I’ll be somewhere working for my Lord. I’ll be
somewhere working, I’ll be somewhere working, I’ll be somewhere working for my
Lord.
Thought For Today: It’s Harvest
Time.
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