Posted August 4, 2010 By MaximizeU
God is an awesome builder. He is the architect of my life. He lays out the best plans, the best blueprints, but it is always up me to follow them. Even following them, there are still many decisions that are up to me.
A laborer, when following blueprints, knows that he also has a written set of codes that tells him how to build a wall or roof. These codes tell him how many nails are required, where he’s allowed to alter the structure and where he’s not. Then there also things that technically meet both the blueprints and the local codes, but may not be built the best that it can be. It is up to the laborer how many times he will square a corner or plum a wall. It is up to the laborer how many times he will check his work against the standards. A great worker will not only follow the blueprints and meet the building codes, but also go the extra bit to check his work against the given standards. Making walls plum, corners square, and plaster smooth.
Two workers can have the same blueprints, build in the same area with the same codes, even work with the same tools, and yet produce two very, very different buildings.
The choice is up to me, what level will I hold my life to? How closely will I follow the Master’s blueprints and the codes that He has established for my life? It’s not up to God how my life is built. He already gave me the master Model and detailed blueprints of how to build my life. Will I follow them? Will you?
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature…
(2 Peter 1:2-4, emphasis mine)
Nathan K.
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