Question: what are you building on and whom are you trusting in and how are you building? Many people waste precious time trying to build their lives by their own strength and finances, but not accomplishing much.
This verse comes to my mind quite often, Psalms 127:1-2, “Unless the Lord builds the house, they
labor in vain who build it; unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays
awake in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the
bread of sorrows; for so He gives His beloved sleep.”
Think about the Tower of Babel, that project was being built
by man and for man and God wasn’t in it so it was being built in vain. Read about it in Genesis 11:1-9, “Now the whole earth had one language and
one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they
found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Then they said to
one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.’ They had
brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, ‘Come, let us
build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a
name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole
earth.’
But the Lord came down
to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord
said, ‘Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is
what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld
from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may
not understand one another’s speech.’ So the Lord scattered them abroad from
there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the
language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over
the face of all the earth.
This was a monument to the people themselves, rather than to
God. How many times do we build
monuments to ourselves in the form of what we own and the things we buy, plus our
finances? It may not be wrong to have
these things, but if we use these things to form our identity and self-worth, they
end up taking God’s place in our lives. We
must be careful we don’t allow our things to take the place of God and not let
the things that we possess become towers in our lives.
Now think of Solomon, King David’s son, when He built the
Temple, it was a beautiful place because God was in the building of it and had
chosen Solomon to build it. He built it
as a monument to God and a permanent place for the Ark of the Covenant. It was a house of worship and a place where
they sacrificed animals. If you want to
read about it, look in 1st Kings chapter 6, the whole chapter. God said He would
dwell among the children of Israel and would not forsake His people Israel.
But there was a pre-requisite, and it was this, in 1 Kings
6:11-12, “Then the word of the Lord came
to Solomon, saying: “Concerning this temple which you are building, if you walk
in My statutes, execute My judgments, keep all My commandments, and walk in
them, then I will perform My word with you, which I spoke to your father David.”
Jesus talked about building your house on either rock or
sand, in Matthew 7:24-27, “Therefore
whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise
man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came,
and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was
founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not
do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the
rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and
it fell. And great was its fall.”
In these verses Jesus talked about how and where you build
your house. If you build your house on
the rock you will put into practice what you hear. If you ignore Jesus’ teachings and just do your
own thing, not putting your trust in Him, then you are building your house on the
sand and it will eventually crumble. So,
what are you building your house, or life, on?
Something to think about! Have a super day and may the good Lord bless
you and yours!
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