1st Corinthians 3:8 Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are laborers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
[Christ Object Lessons pp 82>83] There is too little confidence in the power which God stands ready to give. “We are laborers together with God.” Immeasurably inferior is the part which the human agent sustains; but if he is linked with the divinity of Christ, he can do all things through the strength that Christ imparts.
The gradual development of the plant from the seed is an object lesson in child training. There is “first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.” He who gave this parable created the tiny seed, gave it its vital properties, and ordained the laws that govern its growth. And the truths which the parable teaches were made a living reality in His own life. In both His physical and His spiritual nature He followed the divine order of growth illustrated by the plant, as He wishes all youth to do.
Let us therefore be careful not to subscribe to the New Testament only, for the seduction of devils is often accomplished through the imbalances and the many half-truths lifted from the scriptures in ways that appeal to carnal nature. We therefore end with the last written words of the Old Testament, as the baton was being handed over to the New Testament writers, as they prepared to take up from where Moses and the other prophets had left off.
Malachi 4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!