1 Corinthians 3:5 (ESV)—What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
“Waffles and tea, that’s our kind of place!” I showed my husband the restaurant on the Tripadvisor app.
The next morning, I used the location in the app to find the restaurant…only to arrive at an Asian restaurant. My growling stomach pushed us onward to a second address, procured from the establishment’s website…another misdirection into the heart of Old San Juan. The hunt for a third address, plucked from Yelp or a similar site on the internet (it’s hard to remember), also proved the restaurant elusive.
After this, I gave up.
“Let’s eat here.” I pointed to a random restaurant.
The Corinthians had a similar problem, but instead of searching for a restaurant, they sought someone to put their faith in. Some pointed to Paul and others to Apollos, depending on who’d baptized them. Because of their choice to follow one man, they lacked spiritual growth.
To experience the thrill of growing in spiritual maturity today, we follow the One. We seek God’s wisdom, and the Holy Spirit teaches us discernment. We tend to our role in his name, and our vine bears fruit.
These words sound simple: obey and grow. However, obedience can be difficult. It is choosing to serve him, for every second, of every day, throughout our life. When we seek him first though, we find the benefits of obedience to God and recognize the futility of trusting in a one rather the One.