1 Corinthians 3.  Paul describes the Christian life as both God’s field and God’s building.  As a field, the life is planted in us by God through one worker, and watered through another, but but workers answer to God — the owner of the field.  As a building, the life is planted by one worker (a master-builder), and built upon by others. Judgment Day will disclose the quality of each worker’s efforts.  The building is God’s temple, and it is the bodies/souls of believers. We are responsible to build upon those temples ourselves, and to ensure that they are fireproof. Because, on the Judgment Day, anything built upon us and by us that is not fit for God’s eternal dwelling will be destroyed. For that reason, we need to be careful about building our lives on human traditions — even traditions that are attributed to Paul and Apollos. Only God’s work and God’s truth will last.

LORD, make our lives your fruitful fields, your fireproof buildings.