Building for Eternity
How about a little Oswald Chambers to start the morning? I don’t want to just do some work for God. I want God to take over all my enterprises. I don’t want to attempt to fit Him into my life, my plans, and my enterprises. It is futile to try as the Eternal One is way too big to fit into my little box.
My personal enterprises are doomed to fail. Everything I accomplish in this life outside of God’s eternal purposes will ultimately fail. Maybe they will flourish in this life but will not be carried over into the next. Only enterprises that will succeed are the ones that can stand the test of eternity. I want to fit into His plans and enterprises not my own. I want to get in on what God is doing. Have you ever thought about how your purpose and goals in life fit into eternity? Are my goals lined up with God’s purposes? Something to ponder. Oswald Chambers says it so well below. Enjoy.
“For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?” Luke 14:28
“Our Lord refers not to a cost we have to count, but to a cost which He has counted. The cost was those thirty years in Nazareth, those three years of popularity, scandal and hatred, the deep unfathomable agony in Gethsemane, and the onslaught at Calvary – the pivot upon which the whole of Time and Eternity turns. Jesus Christ has counted the cost. Men are not going to laugh at Him at last and say – “This man began to build, and was not able to finish.”
The conditions of discipleship laid down by Our Lord in vv. 26, 27 and 33 mean that the men and women He is going to use in His mighty building enterprises are those in whom He has done everything. “If any man come to Me, and hate not . . . he cannot be My disciple.” Our Lord implies that the only men and women He will use in His building enterprises are those who love Him personally, passionately and devotedly beyond any of the closest ties on earth. The conditions are stern, but they are glorious.
All that we build is going to be inspected by God. Is God going to detect in His searching fire that we have built on the foundation of Jesus some enterprise of our own? These are days of tremendous enterprises, days when we are trying to work for God, and therein is the snare. Profoundly speaking, we can never work for God. Jesus takes us over for His enterprises, His building schemes entirely, and no soul has any right to claim where he shall be put.”
Oswald Chambers
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