Our heavenly Father has made all of us fearfully and wonderfully according to His word in Psalm 139:14: “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.” Each of us came into our earthly lives with gifts, talents, and something to offer to the world and His kingdom.
Our world is blessed with the most amazing homemakers and legal minds and bus drivers and educators and carpenters and artists and technical gurus – the list is endless. But lest we become overconfident in our own strength and efforts and lest we begin to think that we are all that, Solomon reminds us in Psalm 127:1 that: “Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”
The verse is not necessarily addressing building a house, it could be any activity in which we participate. The lesson to be learned is that whatever we do, there should be a constant acknowledgement of a total dependence on God and that ultimately, our efforts will be frustrated and unsuccessful without His hand upon them. You may be brilliant, strong, or talented, but your efforts will end in futility without the Lord at the head.
In Matthew 7:24-27, Jesus states that those who hear His words AND do them are wise builders. They have built their homes on rock-solid foundations. The winds howl, the rains come – even a flood comes – but the house stands firm. Those who hear His words, but fail to live by them are foolish builders.
Let us endeavor to give the Lord His rightful place in every aspect of our personal lives, our professions, and our world. It is He, after all, who is in control, not us. We could not be in better hands than those of our almighty, loving, God. He is the master builder. Remember the words of the old hymn that says, “On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand, all other ground is sinking sand.”