Proverbs 14:1
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
For as long as I can remember, we have always had this small concrete block building behind the home of my parents. My dad built it years ago with money that his grandmother gave him. It doesn't hold much at all inside the building. Just some mowing equipment and a few tools. So I have told my dad on occasions that we needed to tear it down. His answer is an immediate, "NO! My granny gave me the money to build that building and I ain't tearing it down." He's nothing like the man in the Bible who tore down his smaller barns and built bigger. No, he's more like the guy who filled up the smaller one and then built another one, and another one, and another one.
As I think about this scripture today I think of those words from my dad... "I ain't tearing it down...someone gave me the money to build that!" To often people today are quick to destroy their home that has taken so long to build. A problem comes along or a bump in the home, people just walk away and abandon it altogether.
Stop and think for a moment. If you are a born-again child of God, isn't it God who gave you this family? Isn't it God who gave the means to build a home? Not the brick and lumber, but the actual home? Our scripture says, "Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands." This would almost be like an artist who painted a masterpiece. One of their greatest works from their hands and destroying it with a knife or burning it in the fire. Maybe like a child working all day to build a beautiful sand castle with a bridge and flags on top, to only stand on top of it when they leave and destroy it. I know that the waves may attack and destroy it, or another child (the enemy) stomp on top of it because of jealousy, but to destroy it with your own hands doesn't make much sense.
What are you doing with the house that God has blessed you to build? Is the hammer in your hand building up or tearing down?
Thursday, September 28, 2017
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