God's Building Code

Temptations are attacks aimed by the enemy against the knowledge of God. They are used by God to shake us, test us, and settle us in the faith and assurance of the understanding of His Word which He has given us and which we are walking out in experience. 

​"Has God said...?" "If God loved you..." "If you were in the will of God..." "If you were a real Christian..." "Did you really hear God say..." "Where is God now that you need Him to ..." "If God loved you, He wouldn't let..."

We have all heard these questions, and many more, during our Christian walk and had to deal with the feelings, doubts, uncertainties, and frustrations that come from them. It is not a sin on our part to hear these questions, nor is it double-minded to go to the scriptures and look up His promises, reminding ourselves of what God's word says. 

During building and construction, many methods, both large and small, are used to firm, compact, and solidify the varied materials which go together to form the structure. It may be a road, a dam, a house, a skyscraper, a subway; whether going up into the sky or down into the earth, you will see the builders tamping newly moved earth, vibrating fresh cement, tapping bricks onto mortar, hammering precision-cut wooden beams or enormous steel girders into the tightly fitting space they are designed to fit.

If there is a cavity under the earth or in the concrete forms or mortar around the bricks, it will eventually collapse as weight is put on top of it, and the support it was intended to provide to other parts of the construction would be missing, causing stress from a direction that the structure was not designed to withstand. If the wooden beams or steel girders were short enough to easily put in place, they would not fit tightly enough to provide support through all the changing conditions of temperature and humidity and work load; at some point they would come up short.

Let us each submit to God as the building materials in our lives are tested, shaken, and proven so that we may know and discern the truths of God that we can rely on and safely build with, and reject the principles of the world that will not endure inspection or meet the building codes of the kingdom of God.

James 1
v.2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you are involved in various trials, 
v.3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
v.4 But you must let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

​Lord God, You are the master architect. Your design for our lives is all-encompassing, taking into account things we are not yet aware of, but that You know we will need. We thank You and acknowledge Your wisdom as You supply us with the appropriate building materials. Even when we are tempted to use different items, we submit to Your will, in the assurance that You love us and intend only the best for us. We see Your handiwork, Your workmanship, described in Your Word in the characters of the heroes of faith, and realize that there is no better source to rely on than our God, Creator and Savior, Redeemer and Healer, the One who loves us beyond understanding. Thank You!

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