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Allowing God to be the builder of our lives

Written by Dede Abebreser Tsonyake.

“For every house is built by someone but God is the builder of everything.”(NIV) Hebrews 3:4

We all have ambitions to succeed in all aspects of our lives and I believe we are putting in all efforts to see that we succeed. Sometimes in our quest to succeed, we think we can do it all by ourselves. We need to back our faith to succeed with hard work but even within that, allow God to shape the nature of the hard work. Dear reader, the one and only sure way to succeed in all aspects of our lives is to let God be the builder of our lives. Let us take a look at three things we need to do if we want God to build our lives.

The first thing is to retain nothing of our old lives but retain everything of our new lives. Before we became Christians, we had lived (the old lives) and when we became Christians, we now have new lives (2 Corinthians 5:17). As humans, as we are, there is always the temptation to go back to our old lives (the life of disobedience to our God). If we want God to build our lives, then we must learn to fight off the temptations of going back to our old crooked lives. We must stay focused and stay within our new life (the life of obedience to God) with Christ Jesus. That is the only way the Holy Spirit gets to stay within us and work for our good.

Allowing God to build our lives to success requires faith with works (James 2:20-21). To believe that God is with us and all things will work for our good is good but it needs to be accompanied by works. For example, you want to build a career but all you are doing after completing school is praying. Surely, God can open opportunities through prayers but without any action from you, these opportunities will pass by unnoticed. You are expected to diligently search for a job or start something on your own and believe that God will bless your handiwork. That is putting your faith to work. So get out there and do what you can and leave the rest to Him, He will handle it perfectly.

The last thing I will suggest is to always remember to bring Him His praise when all goes well with us or goes wrong. Our God deserves thanksgiving at all times. Many of us remember to thank God only when things are going well in our lives. When things are not going as we planned, what we unconsciously do resemble a parent withholding the child’s gifts because the child placed second in class instead of first. If we believe God will always work for our good, then we will thank Him even in bad times because we know we did our best and the outcome was ordained by God and it was for our own good. God bless you!

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