God and His Farmers

This article was originally the devotional presented at the September, 1995 meeting of Classis West. The author has expanded the devotional somewhat to correspond to this season of the year in which we celebrate, in a special way, Thanksgiving. In I Corinthians 3:7 we read the conclusion of a farmer: "So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase." The farmer is Paul. He likens his work to planting. His co-laborer, Apollos, does the...