I’ve just been around to see how the kitchen extension next
door is getting on. The floor has been laid now on top of the breeze blocks
that are on top of the foundations. This building is being built on what has
been laid already.
‘Just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord (that’s the
foundations), continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him…’
My neighbour’s extension is being built brick by brick on
firm foundations and we need to be building our lives brick by brick on our
foundational faith that Jesus is our Lord and Saviour. What we need each step
of the way is more of Jesus. We’re back to the goal we looked at in Philippians
3!
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We have to go forward in the direction we’ve begun.
If the builders next door started building the walls away
from the foundations, they would be fragile and likely to collapse, they’d be
breaking the planning permission that has been granted and they’d be
disregarding the instructions of the designer and the client.
But my neighbour’s builders are building according to the
design they’ve been given, on the foundations they’ve carefully laid and I
expect they’ll provide the dream kitchen requested.
Our lives, built on the foundation of who Jesus is and what
he’s done for us, will be, v 7, ‘overflowing with thankfulness’ as we build
with deeper knowledge of Jesus.
(part time member of staff)
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Tom Wright, ‘Paul for Everyone, The Prison Letters’ p164