building

"Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain."  (Psalm 127:1)

What great plans! We were so excited to have come up with what we thought was going to be a really great plan.

When the first hitch happened, I thought, “Oh well, it’s just a little problem. We can get past that/” Not long after, another fly in the ointment, but we were not to be daunted. After all, we’d devised a super plan for the program.

As you have no doubt surmised, it was not long before another glitch, and then another. I felt as if we were treading water, or even worse, swimming upstream against the current.

At some point, one of us realized we had not consulted God prior to trying to implement this wonderful plan. We had asked Him to bless the project, and to bless us as we undertook it. However we had not asked Him in on the foundation and start of the venture.

The Bible says that if the Lord doesn’t ‘build the house, the laborers build in vain.’  That whole thing was a lesson to us, and hopefully one learned so as to not make the same mistake.

How awesome that God is willing and ready to help us, whenever we come back or turn around and seek Him.