Our microwave is on the fritz, sending my husband, Jimmy into one of his soapbox messages on how things are built today.
“They make everything to break, so you have to buy it again. That’s not how I build things,” he declares.
I have seen him build, even just to put a shelf up in my sewing room. Extra nails, extra screws. “That sucker is not coming down”, he promises. And in those times when he does actually have to take apart something he has made, it’s a big chore due to all those extra pieces of hardware, and the heaviness and quality of the wood.
Just read a word this morning from Bob Hartley (here is link to read for yourself: http://elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=12999), where God spoke to him about building. At the end of the article Bob asked God questions, and to each question God responded “Go forth and build”…”Go, build and have fun”…
So what kind of building is God in the business of doing? Does he want us to build in such a way that broken people have to rely on us forever, like we are led to believe is the manufacturer's motive in creating microwaves whose doors no longer latch so they cannot run anymore? I believe God says NO to that building motive since it does not line up with his heart to honor and empower people to be who he created them to be.
We are called to bring the Kingdom of God wherever we go. We invite people to see God, to see what God sees in them, and be part of this heaven coming to earth called the Kingdom of God. Like Jimmy, we build to last, not to make people rely on us to sustain them and keep them dependent on us to feed them lest they starve. Instead, we teach them to taste and see that the Lord is so good, to learn to feed on him themselves. So our ceiling becomes their floor, from glory to glory.
And “that sucker is not coming down!”
