Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Allison. Today's scripture offers us a wiser way of being human as we step into the day.

Today's scripture is for anyone who feels caught in comparison, whether it shows up as envy,

insecurity, competitiveness, or the quiet ache of feeling overlooked. If you've

been measuring your worth against someone else's success, or if you've been tempted to make life a

proving ground, this passage gently calls us back to what is real. Today's scripture is 1st Corinthians

3, 2 through 9. 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 humans? For when one says I follow Paul and

another I follow Apollos, are you not mere human beings?

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 has

been making it grow. So neither the one who plants

nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who makes things grow. The one who plants and

the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor.

For we are co-workers in God's service.

You are God's field, God's building.

You can almost hear the frustration in Paul's voice here.

Not the kind of frustration that's contemptuous,

but the kind that comes from a spiritual parent who loves his people

and doesn't want to watch them shrink into something lesser.

It's like he's saying, I want more for you than this.

The Corinthian Church is dividing into camps.

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