Psalm 127:1 Unless the Lord builds the house,
those who build it labour in vain.
Unless the Lord guards the city,
the guard keeps watch in vain.
I love lists. Give me a good checklist and an hour to work with it and I'm a happy guy. I love to make lists, I love to work lists. I love to make plans, I love to work plans. Good stuff happens when I have a list and when I have a plan. I don't think I'm alone. There's something innate in us humans that causes us to plan. It's one of the gifts of being human. My dog doesn't make many plans. He looks around for food droppings and barks at anything that passes. That's his life, and I don't want it. To be human is to be able to plan and do complex things.
To be human in relationship to God is to be able to plan and do complex things and to know that God might just have a different plan in mind than we do. To be human in relationship to God is to have your daily checklist and to know that God might put a person in your path who wasn't on your list but who needs your help. That's what it means to me to allow the Lord to build the house so I don't build it in vain. I do my plans, I do my lists. And i Know that God's got other lists in mind. I pray that my list looks a little bit like God's list. Then we're really cooking.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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