Laborers Together

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 14, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 40.

Laborers Together

In 1 Cor. 3:9 we are assured that Christians “are laborers together with God.” The Revised Version says, “We are God’s fellow workers.” What an exalted privilege it is to be called into fellowship in labor with the supreme Creator! We would greatly appreciate being called into fellowship of labor with some of the great men of earth, and such a fellowship might be very desirable and beneficial. But think of what it means to be called into fellowship with the great God, as “laborers together with Him.”

The greatness of the gifts and the blessedness of the joys that our heavenly Father has to offer us are often eclipsed by our allowing ourselves to become absorbed in the near-by things of time and sense. It is necessary for us to give attention to the things of this life, and to see what is lying around us; but we should not allow these things to obscure our view of the still greater and more desirable blessings and privileges that the heavenly Father offers to each one who will accept them. Think of what it means to be associated with Him who is the Creator of every sun and of every world that occupies the vast domain of infinite space. But just such a great privilege as this is the very thing that the text contemplates. We are “laborers together with God,” the infinite Creator.