Build Something!
June 5th, 2007 | Michael Pink
Want to emulate the ways of God? Consider Psalm 147:2-6. There you will find a series of seven descriptive characteristics of the ways of God. The first one is that “He builds…” So ask yourself, what are you building? Are you even attempting to build anything? Or are you just marking time, waiting for the rapture you were promised?
The Hebrew word used for build is the word “banah” which was first used in Genesis to describe what God did to fashion a woman out of the rib of Adam. It implies craftsmanship, care and great commitment. Are you building like that?
There are a lot of folks who would prefer to criticize what others are building, finding fault in their doctrine or their motives or their end product, etc. And maybe they are right, but at least they are attempting to do something, to build, to create, to fulfill their purpose as they understand it. But we often mock them because they are building poorly. Maybe they are, but our work is not where we practice perfection, it’s the context in which we develop our relationship with God. It’s where we discover our weaknesses and make our mistakes and ultimately learn how to depend on God.
So I say, build something. It may not be perfect, but if you are building as unto the Lord, you will gain so much from the experience - especially the trials, that the resulting relationship will trump any result. After all, it was never about the thing being built. That is only the context to develop your relationship.
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June 5th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Michael:
We’ve all heard the adage, “anything worth doing is worth doing well.” Someone introduced me to the variation of, “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.” The point being not to excuse poor efforts or workmanship, but to encourage doing! If it’s important and worth doing, we should do it.
We’ve been given gifts and skills. We should be using them to the best of our abilities for God’s Glory!
Charlie
June 5th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Michael;
A better question might be what is God building through us. God has given each of us a ministry and God had given us all the tools and talents we need to complete it. Through Wilbur Wilberforce, slavery was abolished in England, through Jonathan Edwards we had a great awakening and God is not finished. He is looking for men and women to do great things through. All He needs is someone who will say, here I am Lord, send me.
I know this is off the subject but you have mentioned conviction before and here is a quote from Jonathan Edwards.
“To have conviction, so clear, and evident, and assuring, as to be sufficient to induce them, with boldness to sell all, confidently and fearlessly to run the venture of the loss of all things, and of enduring the most exquisite and long continued torments, and to trample the world under foot, and count all things but dung for Christ, the evidence they can have from history, cannot be sufficient….After all that learned men have said to them, there will remain innumerable doubts on their minds; they will be ready, when pinched with some great trials of their faith, to say, How do I know this, or that? How do I know when these histories were written….endless doubts and scruples will remain.”
Kern
June 7th, 2007 at 5:56 am
This is going to be rich! This has got my attention, more than anything else you’ve written, at least in a while. I honestly feel that I am at the end of my rope and trying to figure out where I’m suppose to fit in and when I will get my breakthrough. It’s been years. I have areas where I need grace to obey and steps of a faith that look incredibly huge. Verse three is where I’m at. Keep it coming!
June 10th, 2007 at 11:21 am
Praise God how His family is growing.
Good scripture indeed.
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