Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly--mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men? For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere men?
What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe--as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. – 1 Corinthians 3:1-9
Most of us like to believe we’re more mature than we actually are. Like the time you told your parents you were so ready to drive – at age 13! At times like that, we need a reality check, which is exactly what Paul gave the Corinthians here. For all their lofty opinions of themselves, Paul told them we couldn’t teach them the really deep parts of the faith because they wouldn’t get it. In effect he said, “Telling you deep things is like trying to explain Physics to an eight-year-old; you just aren’t mature enough to understand it.” The Corinthians were capable of maturing so they could hear those things; they just thought they were already mature when they really weren’t. That kind of pride is costly.
Take an honest inventory of your spiritual life. Are you an infant or are you growing steadily?
Ask God to help you grow day by day so you won’t miss out on anything you’re supposed to learn.
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