May 14, 2010

Today's reading: II Chronicles 27, 28, 29; Psalm 14, 44, 74, 104, 134; Proverbs 14

II Chronicles 27:3, "He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much."

I remember several years ago a man began to build a house here in our area. It is about two (2) miles from our house. I really like the finished product with the exception of the yellow siding on parts of the house. The man only built on the house when he had the money to purchase building materials. This made the building process very slow and not steady at all. I also remember that the neighborhood that is up the hill behind the trees from this house complained and were trying to force the man to demolish the house because they did not like the looks of it as it sits by a highway and the entrance to their precious neighborhood. You see the houses in this neighborhood are quite expensive and the house being built was a log cabin type. Not all of it was log cabin style.

The reason I bring this memory up is that the man building the house did not quit in the midst of the battle to stop him. He kept doing what he could do. He kept building and eventually "he built much". I like the finished product except for the yellow.

So many of us began building and were faithful at it. Then one day _____ came along and it caused us to stop. This should not be, friends. We must keep building in spite of the enemy that is trying so hard to stop us. Some people have become lazy. Some have just quit and this should not be in the life of a child of God. Look at II Chronicles 29:34, "But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests." We all need to get busy in these last days and do as God has called each one of us to do.

Proverbs 14:1, "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good." In this verse the words "There is" are in italics. this means that they were added by the translators to help english speaking people understand the writings. They did this because the greek and hebrew languages are far better than ours and we had to fill in for it to make sense to us. If you take the words in italics you get, "The fool hath said in his heart, no God." So if you and I are rebelling against God by not doing His will for our lives we are no better than a fool. Ouch!

So, how are you doing?