tanhaBuilding a House - Choosing the Site.
June 5th 2007 04:50
Building the House
I’m building a house, a bricks and mortar house to live in. It’s slow work, but if they do it thoroughly all will be well. Bricks and roof will be finished tomorrow, I’m happy to say.
It makes me think of the spiritual house of my life. Like my bricks and mortar house, that needs planning, even approval from God who is protecting my interest. He is concerned that my house is built on solid ground, not on shifting sands that the rain will wash away. I think the sand is the ground of unbelief.
If you don’t believe in anything, then the sands under the house will move and shift with every wind of fashion and there’ll be no certainty about anything at all. Philosophies come and go, dictated by charismatic men who may or may not have any real character.
But God has clearly spoken to us and showed us the way to go. The guidelines are clear and we are able to take advantage of that and get things more or less right at the very beginning. It’s good to follow the guidelines. The alternative is to re-invent the wheel, and you can go round in an awful lot of circles doing that! It takes massive amounts of time you could have spent better, and creates problems which you then have to fix – if you can! If you can’t you then have to live with them whether you like it or not! What you believe (in your heart, as well as your head) dictates everything you do and all the consequences thereof.
It’s interesting that God gave us faith. It’s just a matter of where we put it. We can believe in ourselves and our own intellect – well, everybody else has an intellect too, but does that make them right, or am I right? Oh dear! It seems there are no grounds for faith or certainty or belief there! The differences are far too gigantic!
We can believe in some man-made philosophy – one’s as good as any other – Confucianism, Buddhism, Voltaire, Marxism, Mohammed or the elephant god! Non of them proved they are much different from any other human being. Shifting sands!
You can put your faith in evolution, but it’s only an idea someone once had for explaining things and it’s very questionable, even though it has a large folowing. Besides, it requires you to place all your faith in nothing (as being the source of everything) - bit of a waste, I'd say.
The faith our Designer placed in us is supposed to return right back full circle to Him. That’s by far its best and most Your text goes hereYour text goes herepowerful function, and Jesus proved Himself in many, many ways, not least by His permanent resurrection from death. He is wisdom, and the right source of truth for our lives. He is the rock solid foundation that we need.
So we’ve selected the block for the house - No 1 Belief Drive! Watch this space for the next step!
I’m building a house, a bricks and mortar house to live in. It’s slow work, but if they do it thoroughly all will be well. Bricks and roof will be finished tomorrow, I’m happy to say.
It makes me think of the spiritual house of my life. Like my bricks and mortar house, that needs planning, even approval from God who is protecting my interest. He is concerned that my house is built on solid ground, not on shifting sands that the rain will wash away. I think the sand is the ground of unbelief.
If you don’t believe in anything, then the sands under the house will move and shift with every wind of fashion and there’ll be no certainty about anything at all. Philosophies come and go, dictated by charismatic men who may or may not have any real character.
But God has clearly spoken to us and showed us the way to go. The guidelines are clear and we are able to take advantage of that and get things more or less right at the very beginning. It’s good to follow the guidelines. The alternative is to re-invent the wheel, and you can go round in an awful lot of circles doing that! It takes massive amounts of time you could have spent better, and creates problems which you then have to fix – if you can! If you can’t you then have to live with them whether you like it or not! What you believe (in your heart, as well as your head) dictates everything you do and all the consequences thereof.
It’s interesting that God gave us faith. It’s just a matter of where we put it. We can believe in ourselves and our own intellect – well, everybody else has an intellect too, but does that make them right, or am I right? Oh dear! It seems there are no grounds for faith or certainty or belief there! The differences are far too gigantic!
We can believe in some man-made philosophy – one’s as good as any other – Confucianism, Buddhism, Voltaire, Marxism, Mohammed or the elephant god! Non of them proved they are much different from any other human being. Shifting sands!
You can put your faith in evolution, but it’s only an idea someone once had for explaining things and it’s very questionable, even though it has a large folowing. Besides, it requires you to place all your faith in nothing (as being the source of everything) - bit of a waste, I'd say.
The faith our Designer placed in us is supposed to return right back full circle to Him. That’s by far its best and most Your text goes hereYour text goes herepowerful function, and Jesus proved Himself in many, many ways, not least by His permanent resurrection from death. He is wisdom, and the right source of truth for our lives. He is the rock solid foundation that we need.
So we’ve selected the block for the house - No 1 Belief Drive! Watch this space for the next step!
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