Todays Good Word.......Building on your own? Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain” (Psalm 127:1). and listen to this. From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him. (Isaiah 64:4) Along with the truths of God for marriage and family, we need to seek the Lord in dependent worship and prayer on a regular basis. For He alone can “build” and “watch over” our marriages and families. The only way that we can truly reflect God’s image in our marriages is to develop a faith relationship with Him and with each other and. The refusal to get caught up in the typical rat race and workaholic syndrome. “In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat — for He grants sleep to those He loves.”(Psalm 127:2) It is so easy to get caught up in the worldly rat race to keep getting more and more stuff: working 12-hour plus days or husbands and wives both dashing off to jobs that will keep them in a lifestyle that matches the neighbors or that will get them more things to keep the happy veneer intact. But the awful reality is that none of these workaholic pursuits will ever give us the sustaining joy and fulfillment that God desires to freely give us. Not only does He provide for proper seasons of rest, He also provides for us while we are resting: gifts like physical and emotional recovery; spiritual renewal and vision; new and wonderful surprises for the dawning day. Is it any wonder that so many Christians are collapsing under the weight of such an enslaving lifestyle? If we are going to rein in spiritual warfare in our marriages, for the glory of God, then we are going to have to put the brakes on our rat race lifestyle and trust God to provide all that we will ever need. Only a few things have gripped me with greater joy than the truth that God loves to show his God-ness by working for me, and that his working for me is always before and under and in any working I do for him. But you got to remember i.e As in: “God works for those who wait for him” (Isaiah 64:4). “God works for me” means I can’t do the work. And this glorifies him not me. The Giver gets the glory. The Powerful One gets the praise. Read and be freed from the burden of bearing your own load. Let him do that work.Let Him build your house. Listen and read what the bible says: “God is not served by human hands as though he needed anything, but he himself gives life and breath and everything” (Acts 17:25). “The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). “The eyes of the LORD run through the earth, to show himself strong for those who trust him” (2 Chronicles. 16:9). “To old age I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save” (Isaiah 46:4). “I worked harder than any, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me” (1 Corinthians. 15:10). 8.“Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain” (Psalm 127:1). “Whoever serves, let him serve by the strength God supplies, so that in everything God may be glorified” (1 Peter 4:11). Choice is yours build on your own and build in vain or wait on the Lord and let Him work for you. https://youtube/watch?v=cjkCV5iN5mA Blessings and have a great day. -mark.d
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 12:18:18 +0000
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