Love Worth Finding - January 20, 2012

January 20

Hammers and Chisels at Work

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the Husbandman. Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” John 15:1-2

When Solomon built his temple, he employed eighty thousand stonecutters. They chipped and shaped those stones in the quarry before bringing them to the temple mound. Why? Because Solomon didn’t want the sound of the hammers and chisels heard on the temple mound.

In the same way, you are part of the living stones of His temple and God is shaping you here in the “quarry” of earth. Part of your shaping is in the form of persecution. So don’t look at your persecutors as enemies, but as God’s stonecutters.

Next time someone reviles you say, “Thank God, another stonecutter.” God is shaping you to be what you ought to be.
 

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