Construction is Never Ending!
- notpopular110
- Dec 5, 2017
- 2 min read
I don’t know anyone who thoroughly enjoys construction (except maybe construction workers). It’s such a nuisance. It slows you down, blocks off important areas, and makes you take detours. I feel like construction is everywhere; there is a ton of construction on my campus and on roads around town. And it seems that once they finish something, they start right back up on something else. When will it all be fixed? When will we not have to deal with construction? Well sadly, the answer to that is NEVER. There will always be something to fix or build. It really is a never ending process.
But its the same for us in our spiritual walk with Christ. While construction can be annoying, it is a necessity. And most often when dealing with God it’s not only a necessity but it is an urgent need. You see there is a reason Christ says we are broken sinners. We need maintenance every day. If you don’t maintain a building or a road it slowly becomes dirty, broken, and messy. That’s the same with our faith. If we are not working on it every single day, it starts to weaken, it starts to collect dust, it starts to get mixed up with all the other things in our life.
It is important for us to continually seek God and perform maintenance on our relationship with Him. That being said, while that construction is going on in our hearts we might have to take detours from certain opportunities or change our way of life, but its for the better.
Proverbs 12:11
Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.
“Well okay but how do I start the process of construction on my soul?” Simply talk to God and listen. What is He telling you to work on? Could you be more humble, more caring, more understating, or more patient? Pray, read the Bible, read a devotion, talk to a friend or pastor. There is no “right” way to go about it. Different contractors have different ways of constructing a house; one might start with blueprints and one might start with finding land; but in the end the house is built all the same. It doesn’t matter where you start, it matters where you finish. And that finish line, for us believers, is an earthly death and our prize, a heavenly everlasting life. And that is well worth all the annoying construction.
James 1:12
Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.