A follow the leader line around the cross building to collect cement bricks. To a scavenger hunt of finding small bricks underneath rock and dirt piles. And then scooping basins of sand to mix with water creating cement volcanos.
Construction has been a brick by brick ministry. When one step has been completed then the next direction is given; never really knowing the outcome. For me this is a challenge. I like having all the details, I like being able to create a plan of action and seeing the vision.
It is in these moments of going through each tedious task I remember the importance of JUST DOING THE NEXT SINGLE THING.
God doesn’t want my focus to be on the end result, He wants me to be present and in the moment focusing on the one task He has placed before me. This month it was laying a foundation.
While I haven’t mastered focusing on the individual bricks God places in my life by any means, I am aware of when the desire of control comes into my life. Because it is when I am most uncomfortable and when my mind skips ahead to the future; it’s God giving me a pile of rocks to construct my dream house and I’m already looking up ways to decorate the castle I have created! It is when everything in me looks forward to the end and I’m no longer seeing God in the moment. Instead I am looking for Him in the Monuments.
God wants my best within the cement and each brick. He wants my attention and faithfulness in the everyday. All I can do is my best. Isn’t that all we can ever do?
Scripture gives me truth:
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
-1 Corinthians 3:11
To be truthful, there will always be a part of me that craves the details of the future, because I strive for excellence. However, I don’t always need to be focused on the next monument in my life, I can find freedom in each of the bricks it takes to construct the castle.
Jesus is my Rock! If I find him in each brick I put in the foundation then I can build my life upon it. And if I obey Jesus, and everything He tells me in his word, I have the assurance that no matter what flood beats upon me, no matter how fierce the storms of this life may get I will never fall, I will never be moved.
