To be in synergy with God ...

You are a worker with God! This is what Paul declares, what an extraordinary privilege to be able to be a partner with the Creator of the whole universe… Which means that God has chosen you to build with Him. And the first of the important things is to understand that it is with Him and not for Him. Likewise, we live with Jesus and not for Jesus. It is because you are with Him that you can do with Him. It is essential to be able to align your life with this reality because often we tend to want to do things for God.

Which amounts to wanting to act alone and with our own strength. It is a form of pride which deprives us of an effective collaboration with God. Which reveals a motivation that is not fair, we can do the best things in the world, if our motivation is not good, it is useless. Wanting to do things for God is often actually doing things for oneself in disguise, wanting to prove something, to gain approval or love, etc. God created you in an extraordinary way to be with Him, to live in His presence, here, now and for eternity ... So we build with Him and not Him with us ...

To be workers with God, the Greek term used here (the New Testament was written mainly in Greek) is “synergos” from which the word synergy is inspired in French. You are called to work in synergy with God. A synergy is when several factors (here God and you, plus those God adds) work together and create an overall effect that could never have happened otherwise. It's a real creative collaboration. Someone once expressed it differently by saying that “without us He will not do it, and without Him we cannot”. Synergy is producing something that would not have been possible by a single factor, so it is your responsibility to accept being a worker with God.

We find for example the same word in the last verse of the Gospel of Mark: “And they went to preach everywhere, the Lord worked (synergeo) with them and confirmed the Word by the signs which accompanied it” (cf. . Mark 16:20). It was necessary that the disciples agree to obey Jesus' mission order (cf. Matthew 28:19) for God to free the miraculous, it is synergy. It is to the extent to which you obey His call that God releases His power. And the mission has not changed… God desires to build with you in His field, and in the above verse, Paul clearly describes the field of God as the life of his readers, the church in Corinth.

In verse 6, we see this synergy perfectly in action when Paul says: “I planted, Apollos watered, but God made it grow”. God wants to work in His field with you, these are the lives of the people you meet so that the seed of His Word is shared in order to free life and salvation. So it's up to you to simply share His love, His Word around you, all that God does in your life so that God makes this Word grow and that He confirms it by the signs that accompany it. Everything therefore begins by staying with God in order to be able to do His work with Him… It is now and it is for you !

God has blessed you richly so that you bless abundantly ...

Luke