Friday... So who gets the credit?

Psalm 127:1 (NLT), "Unless the Lord builds a house, the work is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good."

Friday... So who gets the credit?

We do so much and we need the credit. It seems that our worth is attached to what we do. But Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived says in Psalm 127:1, "Unless the Lord builds a house, the work is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good."

Yes, he understood this. Now we give him credit for building the first Temple of God. It took seven year for it to be built and it happened during his reign over Israel. Now his father, King David wanted to be the one to build the first Temple but because he was a man of war God didn't allow him to build it and he was a man after God's own heart. He was a great King, the second King of Israel and it seems that he should have been the one to build it, but he didn't.

Now it is so important in our lives with our abilities, with our great intelligence that the Lord is in charge and unless he does it then our work is wasted. Yes, Solomon knew this to be true. God writes this through him for us to see and understand that, "Unless the Lord builds a house, the work is wasted." and "Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good."

Now God created each one of us with a purpose. Rick Warren says that God created our Shape for his purpose. Here is what it means: S is Spiritual gifts, H is Heart, A is Abilities, P is Personality and E is Experience. And he has put all of those together to make us for a purpose.

Now another way to say Psalm 1 is, unless we seek God for how he has built us then our life is a waste. He has created each one of us for a purpose and we need to go to him and find out our purpose. We need to find what our Spiritual gifts are that God gave us when we accepted him into our life. We need to know what we really love to do, that is Heart. And then knowing our Personality is so very important. There are tests that tell us that. And Experience, what we have gone through in our lives is important in finding what God has Shaped us to do.

"Unless the Lord builds a house, the work is wasted." Yes, God has a plan for our life and it just takes some seeking through prayer, through meditating on and reading the Bible, spending time with Godly people and asking them what they see in us and then seeking through quality time with God's Spirit what our Shape really is. And don't forget to really think about your experiences, the good and bad. Yes, David wanted to built the Temple but he was a warrior and his experiences made him a great writer of the Psalms.

Now in whatever we do, who gets the credit? Of course, God does. He is the one who shaped us and who is the one with a plan and he is the one who sent his son to die for us, to save us. And he is also the one for sure that we do whatever we do. "Unless the Lord builds a house, the work is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good." He does it all through us and he gets the credit.

And also verse 2 (AMP) says, "It is vain for you to rise early, to retire late, to eat bread of anxious labors - for He gives [blessings] to His beloved even in his sleep." He wants to do life through us. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

Thursday... Maybe we need this word today.

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Tuesday... We just have trouble listening.

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Friday... It is so exciting but wait a minute.

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