24/05/2020
Reading -1corinth 3:10-14.
THEME:TAKE HEED HOW YOU BUILD. (JICHUNGUZE JINSI UNAVYO JENGA).
Afitting illustration of the Christian life for the people Corinth famed for it's Architecture.
We are all builders whether we choose or not we may be temple-builders each heart, each life,each character may become a temple of the Holy Spirit.
Every act we do, every word we utter, the way in which we spend any moments of our life, is either a fragment of gold, silver, precious stones or of wood, hay and stubble, built into the rising structure of the er****on entrusted into our skill and pains.
It does not so much matter what we do, but how we do it. Evertime we perform any action with the best motives and spirit, we deposit a tiny grain of gold-dust, whenever on the other side,we do aught often a slovenly superficial and careless manner.
We weave into the structure of character material which will yield as inevitably in the hour of temptation as wood hay and stubble before flame.
We sometimes at the end of the day reviewing the past hours bitterly lament that we have done nothing in the way of character -building"There is nothing to show for this day",we say mentally to our selves Ah! But there is every moment has left it's record on your heart
Every act has left you confirmed in a good habit or in a bad one. The soul-life has not halted for a second one has been growing to moral health, or towards descreptitude, consumption and decay.
If not gold, then wood, if not silver, then hay, if not costly stones then stubble. We shall not be saved on account of our works, The only thing that can secure Salvation is the being built into God's foundation. The rock Christ Jesus,but we shall be rewarded according to the manner in which we have built up the structure.
