How many times in life do we start a project thinking I have this under control I
don’t need any help? We think we know
what we are doing and then realize, man
how did this get to be such a mess? A
few years back I started a plumbing project one with I thought would take me
about half a day to do, after the first full day of working on it by myself, I
called my dad to see if he could come over and take a look at it the next
morning to see if he could help me out and tell me what might need to be
done. He came over and we fixed it, but
I would have never finished it up without his help. Psalm 127:1-2 tells us this; “unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builders is useless. Unless
the Lord protects a city, guarding
it with sentries will do no good. It is useless for you to work so hard from
early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God
gives rest to his loved ones.” How many
times in life do we decide to do something and never consult with God or even
ask for His Help? Many times in life we
begin to go forward with projects and half way through realize that we should
have consulted with someone. It would
have made the process much easier.
The Psalmist is saying to us here that
we must begin to live our lives by consulting with God, we want our marriage to
grow, we must first go and talk to God and truly give Him our marriage, we want
to see our children grow and become strong in God’s word we must truly repent
and give our own lives to God. We want
to live for God we must be honest with ourselves and with God, we have to start
letting Him have control of our lives.
We do not like that idea, we like to think we can conquer life and
escape the consequences’ of our sin on our own but that is not true at
all. For Christ tells this in John
15:5. “Yes, I am the vine; you are the
branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart
from me you can do nothing.” Did you
notice the last part where Christ says without Him we can do nothing? What does that mean, that means we are not
able to grow stronger in God’s holiness without Christ. That we are not saved from our sins just because
we believe in Christ. We have to get
real with God and truly repent of our sins and leave that part of our live in
the past. We must begin to live our
lives in a way that pleases God.
If
we truly want to see God working in our lives then we are to become as Christ,
we are to no longer live for ourselves but live for God. We must allow God to do the building in our
lives, we must begin to listen to the Holy Sprite and allow the Holy Sprite to
guide and direct us. We must be watchful
of the evil desires that may come our way and not fall back into our old sinful
ways. Paul told the Philippines; “dearest
friends, you were always so careful to follow my instructions when I was with
you. And now that I am away you must be even more careful to put into action
God’s saving work in your lives, obeying God with deep reverence and fear. For God is working in you, giving you
the desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him.” (Phil 2:12-13) We must allow the desire of being obedient to
God take control of us and live for Him.
That means; when are relaxing, at work, doing house work we are being
sure that we are being careful to honor God in it. Many times we believe that we must fix our
lives before we can come to God, the reality is without God we cannot fix it,
we are going to make a bigger mess of it.
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