I would like to continue this week with thoughts on God’s building program with a reminder from Hebrews 3:4, “every house is built by someone but the builder of all things is God.”
“And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.” Phil. 1:6 NLT
“For it is God at work in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure, therefore do all things without murmuring and complaining so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world…” Philippians 2:13
Let us never lose sight of the fact that what God has authored, He will finish. He holds the master plan of returning and setting up His glorious kingdom. As simple vessels created for His use, we should be mindful that we are used as long as we are useful to Him, therefore, do all things without murmuring and complaining. We do hold admonitions about being faithful stewards, stedfast and enduring. Mindful of these, we do not cast away our confidence or allow weariness of heart and mind to settle in.
I think sometimes our mindsets towards a benevolent God, gracious, loving and kind, overlook the reality of a returning King who will judge all according to His standard of righteousness. His judgment will be upon all sin. We do not want to be found living with any practice that God calls sin. It will be a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God, especially if we have squandered our stewardship in this earthly realm, giving ourselves to the pleasures of this world.
There is a press we all live in. A press that draws us to Him, a press that pulls us away. I suppose it’s the same press, just our response to it that either enables us to increase with the increase of God or creates such disappointment and discouragement we invariably draw back. Hebrews reminds us we are not those who draw back unto perdition but those that endure to the saving of our souls. We press on to the prize of the upward call in Christ.
We live mindful of duty and service to our King. Each created vessel is fitted and equipped, perfectly prepared for the masters use. We are set into what He has authored. Fitted into the body of Christ, we are individual members, living stones, set as it pleases Him to work towards the finish.
As long as it is called today, He continues to work on His spiritual house providing for Him a dwelling place with man now, here on the earth. His plan, His purposes shall be fulfilled. We are receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken.
“For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, 'I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
2 Cor 6:16
The Father continues working and instructs his sons and daughters. I grow increasingly more grateful for the work He is doing these days, choosing to believe that what He has started He will finish.