What the Apostle Paul and Krishna Share...

Ok. That title was to get some attention:)

This is one thing they share, at least as they have touched my life...

Two versions of a provocative reminder that the roles we play in any endeavor -- however great and however we care about it -- are limited, confined, interdependent, and without any guarantee of the results our ego may seek. That, they both say, is left to the One who we believe has the whole picture in providential care. (Frankly, although Paul is familiar, beautiful and vivid in helpful imagery, I prefer the punchy brevity of Krishna!)

Here's the extended passage from Paul, in 1 Corinthians 3: 2-9:

I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready, for you are still of the flesh. For as long as there is jealousy and quarrelling among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving according to human inclinations? For when one says, ‘I belong to Paul’, and another, ‘I belong to Apollos’, are you not merely human?

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. The one who plants and the one who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wages according to the labour of each. For we are God’s servants, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building.
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And, here's Krishna, in the Bhagavad-gita:

"To the work you are entitled, but not to it's fruits..."

There are a number of dimensions to my own lifelong Lenten journey. Learning this one may be at the core... Thank you, Paul and Krishna, for calling me to my Center in humility and rest!