The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe
"Builders"
Construction or destruction. Our lives serve one or the other function in the body of Christ.
"Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify (build up) another" (Romans 14:19).
Regarding so vital a matter, we do not live neutrally. Our countenance, demeanor, attitudes, words, and deeds either help or hinder others in their walk with the Lord. This constitutes a vital reason we must visit the throne of grace day by day to seek our Lord's leading and enabling to serve as builders rather than demolitionists.
"And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up" (Acts 20:32).
Prayerfully keeping near to the Scriptures prepares our hearts and minds for our own walk with God, and also to serve as encouraging blessings to others. This applies to every born again believer in the Lord Jesus. Indeed, even if we were stranded on a desert island, the privileged responsibility of seeking to "edify another" would remain as God's answers to our prayers, guided by His Spirit and Word, benefitted fellow Christians. Under normal circumstances, a life lived in the light of Scripture serves as construction material in more ways than we can ever know. "The Word of His grace" does not merely build us up personally, but rather moves through us to lift and maintain others. "As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God" (I Peter 4:10).
How our lives serve to add or maintain the bricks and mortar of the body of Christ, we often do not realize. That they do so we as present ourselves to the Lord for edifying others is certain as we walk in His building up of ourselves. The Lord Jesus is the builder, we are "laborers together with Him," and the Holy Spirit supplies the power in our countenance, demeanor, attitudes, words, and deeds to serve as constructionists rather than demolitionists.
"Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone, in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord, in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit."
(Ephesians 2:19-22)
Weekly Memory Verse
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things."
(John 14:26).
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