agree. That is all I’m suggesting is that i don’t think Jesus was praising there is only a few that find it. If it’s not a good thing that only a few find it …I wonder why few find it? We sing songs of “this little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine.”
Agreed. Jesus wept over Jerusalem. Jesus would want that all be saved...just as we read in 1 Timothy 2:4...God desires that all be saved and come to the knowledge of Him.
Yes m'am...we let our little light shine,,,
but how many that see it will actually respond?
Someone mentioned the parable of the sower and the seed. There is that which is withered from lack of water. The word speaks of those who plant and those who water. 1 Corinthians 3:7-9 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. [8] He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. [9] For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
So happy that you understand 1 Cor 3:7-9
I'm afraid many don't quite grasp the meaning of these verses.
We are God's fellow workers to build that building....
We are to follow in the footsteps of Paul...
sow, plant, water --- whatever is necessary for whatever point anyone is at....
Yes. §We are God's fellow workers,,,,the harvest is ready, but the workers are few...
so we do our best.
Since God gives the increase…yet there is only a few which are given increase…yet that there are only a few is not good…then what is preventing that there be only a few, and NOT many made rich towards God? Greed? Envy? lust?
Jesus healed the hand which was withered —-saying stretch out your hand—Jesus making it whole like the other. Who got angry that Jesus healed the man whose hand had withered? The religious leaders. It was always the religious leaders mad, like when he rescued one fallen into a pit. It wasn’t the ones who didn’t know God, but those who claimed to be experts on God who got angry that the withered was restored whole like the other hand, or the one fallen into a pit was lifted out of the pit.
You bring up good points.
It should certainly be those of God that teach the healing of God's hand.
But they're human just like all of us - although we should hold them to a higher standard...just like Paul taught Timothy and the qualifications of an elder.
I think envy must be a part of it.
As to the rest of us.....
I think many don't believe God even exists.
And for many that do, they think He's just too demanding...
they see God as a strict parent that they'd rather not have around so they could do whatever they want to.
How about a girl a know (50 plus years old) whose husband left her for someone else.
She always went to church and spoke nicely of God. Seemed to be a believer, or at least she said so.
Now, she's living with someone.
I can't judge.
I haven't lived her experience.
But I do say that we can fall away from our faith and God.
OTOH,,,she didn't leave him...he left her.
Complicated topic.
The sower and the seed speaks of the devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy …fowls come along and devour (eat up) and steal the seed planted in hearts. When God instructs to steal no more, what is He saying to stop stealing from your neighbor? You already mentioned the focus should not be on possessions but the more important and needed reconciliation unto God.
Paul spoke of a brother whom was weak and without the knowledge that he (Paul) has, saying if he harmed his brother, then he (Paul) sinned against Christ.
Point is, if God doesn’t desire only a few find it….
Who is it that desires a few find it?
I personally think it’s those who keep asserting there is few that find it. Yet They say they have found it.
Those that assert that few find God are not the ones keeping them from finding God.
We each have a mind of our own and God has made Himself be known to mankind, so there will be no excuse when coming before God.
Romans 1:19-20
19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.
20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
You mentioned to look at the obvious….asking do I see many? Another obvious I see when I look is every single day you’ll have men telling you how wrong everyone is and how right they are. I’ve been told and laughed at before that I’m not able to eat the meat. How I need to be fed the milk. This that Paul spoke is used to flaunt self as one ready for the meat. It is used to push others down as in need of the milk. It’s only recently I’ve noticed the milk Paul fed those still yet carnal was “the pure milk” by which one grows. 1 Peter 2:2-3 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation- [3] if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
Jesus said we must be like children if we want to belong to the Kingdom of God. (on earth and in heaven).
ANY food from God is good.
I wouldn't worry too much.
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
Milk is good.
Meat is good.
Any food of God's is good.
Paul told Timothy not to let anyone discourage him because of his young age.
Those not edifying Christian brothers/sisters are themselves in need of some serious spiritual food !
An obvious to me is if I have tasted the Lord is good, fed pure milk by it I may grow as a newborn infant…why do men desire to kill the newborn infant by their mocking and critiquing and leveraging how they eat the meat. See, I don’t trust a thing men say or push back with a spirit of superiority. Should they not know the pure milk, to taste of the Lord and see that He is good, is not something for them to Lord over people?
Amen!
Stay close to God and don't worry about what men think.
Matthew 14:13-14
13 Then some children were brought to Him so that He might lay His hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.
14 But Jesus said, "Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."
