Daily Journal: 21 September

Your Architecturally Designed Building

Before a building is built, there are plans drawn up and materials chosen for the look and function of the design to be achieved with a designated building site and boundary lines.

Psalm 139:15-16 (GWT)

Your eyes saw me when I was still an unborn child. Every day of my life was recorded in your book before one of them had taken place.

God drew up the plans for our lives and chose the talents we have, the skills we would develop, and the specific people who would co-labour in our lives, so that the design of our building would be achieved.

It’s not always easy to see what God is doing in life. Yet, we know He has created all. When we know Who our originator is, we follow Him. Even when we can’t see what He sees, we know He sees, and so we follow Him.

Isaiah 2:13 (NIV)

And again, “I will put my trust in Him.”

When we believe, where else do we go, what else do we do? We can’t disown Him one day and believe again the next, depending on how we wake up feeling. We can’t doubt what we once pronounced just because of what others say or don’t say. We can’t turn away from what we once embraced because we haven’t yet seen what we want to see.

Our trust isn’t in a human being and our faith is not to ensure our personal satisfaction. In life, we are tested so that we may remain. No matter what happens, our faith is built on the Builder, not on the house He’s building.

Hebrews 3:3-4 (NLV)

The man who builds a house gets more honour than the house. That is why Jesus gets more honour than Moses. Every house is built by someone. And God is the One Who has built everything.

Faith is letting the Builder build the house according to the plans He drafted before our existence. When we have days where we find it hard to trust what we can’t see, we choose to ask, how can I glorify Him today? And then we choose to do it so that we don’t bring His name into disrepute, and He can achieve His design in us.

Jeremiah 1:4-5 (NASB)

Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,

The Builder building your house knows you; knows every day, every moment, every intent, every thought, ever footstep, every spoken word, every desire, every dream. He is far more than we can imagine and He is fully good. He is the One who places what is good in you. You are the one who can invite what is not good. That’s a choice that can hinder the design process.

Even when you can’t see what God’s doing, don’t allow what is not good to enter your building. Work with the Builder to keep your job sight clean so that He can build your house the way He has designed it – fully equipped, fully functioning, a one-of-a-kind, architecturally designed building, according to His measurements and materials. Don't allow a lesser quality build because of your choice of lesser quality materials or adjustments you'd like to make.

Ephesians 2:10 (NLT)

For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.