Praise the Dear Lord!! He is good and faithful and will never leave nor forsake His children, as He promised. Now the building work has started again... The gaps on the walls have now been filled and the walls are ready for plaster. Glory to God. The floor work has already begun and has progressed some. It should be finished this week, if the cement will be enough, but we are going at the speed the Lord allows us to go at. He has done so much for us, we are grateful and happy. He has taken us so far, actually farther than we can be able to describe in words. Glory to God for all His love and mercies. The outside doors have been ordered and are being welded. We have to use metal doors because of the white ants which eat timber. (Our timber is not treated well enough and these ants here would have a feast). The Lord has been so good to us. Praise His holy name!
These children are excited after the Sunday service. Everyone is grateful and happy as they see the answers to prayers for the building to be finished.
God's purposes are wonderful. They are worth waiting on. Worth suffering for and meditating on. That's because God cares much more about the process and the built-in qualities than the external results. Truly, He works to establish us in Himself.
We start out simply with "raw materials."
It is the wise builder who sees the full potential. As we face the trials and testings of our faith, I am blessed to consider God's purpose: "But the God of all grace, who has called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you." (1 Peter 5:10)
The work on flooring the Bible Center gives us a view of this spiritual process at "the ground level:"
To provide a solid foundation for the cement, the "hardcore" is laid first. Each piece is put in place and beaten level.
A good example of Ephesians 4:2: "with lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love." No place to get edgy under pressure or exalt oneself...
After the hardcore is pressed firmly together, a wheelbarrow runs down the plank and dumps its load of murram...
Pressed and smothered? It's time to be looking at the heavenly perspective - "For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called." (1 Cor. 1:26)
Loading and spreading the murram to give a smooth surface for the concrete mix.
When individual identity is forgotten, and God's will alone matters... that's where the work of God can really begin. "But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things, and things which are despised... that no flesh should glory in His presence." (1 Cor. 1:27-29) Praise Him!
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