When a house is built, the most important work is often never seen. Even before concrete is poured, the ground has to be prepped and graded.  The first step in the process is dirt-work! 

Excavation and installation of footers all must be done before a single brick is laid. Skip this step and you undermine the integrity of the structure and risk future issues and the likelihood of having to start all over again.

Sounds a bit like life, doesn’t it?  When our foundation is questionable, our future is a gamble.  Time, tests, and trials will all tell what’s really there, no?  Times are indeed telling!

I hope we are rooted in God – gripped by grace, and grounded by God’s love for us!  What is true will stand, what is not, will fall.

Remember Jesus’ parable about building a house on a rock? I can hear in His words, an echo from the Psalm:

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.

Psalm 127:1

It’s time for all of us to do some ‘dirt-work,’ huh? It’s beyond time for some excavation and regrading to occur in our hearts and lives. Let the Word and Spirit work! 

Good Morning, I love you all!

ihs,

just adam