1 Corinthians 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

Take heed Paul declares, be careful. In this very effort to bring you a message I find myself trying to be careful. My first impulse was to call this Construction Material because the materials one choses can have consequences which are devastating in the end. Reference the Three Little Pigs.

Then again I wondered about calling it Craftsmanship. Even with the right materials, if you do not have the skills to put them together rightly, things can fall apart. Reference Jenga Pieces.

I dismissed the urge to call this DIY because the very name itself implies self-effort and in that one will either be a copycat or do what pleases self.

Maybe this would have been better called indecision because I’ve been so indecisive.  But I chose take heed because you are the ones that will have to make the choices for yourselves. At this point I want you to answer me this; what are you building?

If you are not sure, go to 1 Corinthians 3:9 and read the last words.

Ultimately the care and concern you have in that construction has to be a matter of the choices you make in understanding the blueprints, the building materials, the craftsmanship, and the effort you put forth to achieve God’s will for you.

1 Corinthians 3:13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

You will be tested.

Luke 13:7-9 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

Given that we produce fruit, it is the seed that falls from our tree that gets planted and a tree emerges. In turn we yearn to see that tree produce fruit. It is a desire of a heart after God to see those whom we have brought to Christ to be productive. It speaks to the quality of the seed which we produced.

There is a flaw in that thinking.

It is not our vineyard and we are not the vine dresser.

In the natural world we plant fruit trees and have a rightful expectation for fruit to be produced. In this, it is our land, our tree and our responsibility to see to its care. In the Kingdom life we live we seldom get to be around that planted seed long enough to see fruit being produced in our expectation of maturity.

Even if we were so lucky to be in someone’s life that long, we still are not the vine dresser, which is the Holy Spirit. Once planted our seed is no longer ours to own, it belongs to the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

It is the Holy Spirit that transplants your tree to the water’s edge.