Construction

During Kevin's sermon yesterday he was mentioning how often we let our guilt and our past controll us, I often look at the ceiling of the church when he talks- it kind of helps me stay focus on the words.
And then a thought occured to me- what if the builders of this church would have given up when they made a mistake during their construction? What if the roofer, the framer, the plumber or electrician would have stopped and walked away when he drilled the wrong wall or cut the wrong cable? That's stupid you say, yeah thats the point, they corrected their mistakes, and finished the project.

Yet so many of us in our spiritual life don't continue. We give our mistakes and our "sins" the power to drive us from this project God has started and wants to complete. Too many of us look like half completed buildings that have been abandoned by their workers.

The beauty of grace is that when we fall and we admit our wrong doing and we turn away from it God is ready to go back to work.
Ruben