we travel, yet at the same time complain about all the construction that is going on this
time of year! The truth is that in order to have ideal highways we must endure the
construction that it takes to improve them. None of us enjoy the delays, the detours,
the confusion that seems to go hand in hand with these construction zones, but they are
necessary in order to reach completion of the project.
On our spiritual journey to our heavenly home we encounter construction zones. There
are times in our lives that seem chaotic, our plans are detoured and we experience delays
in our well orchestrated lives. We dislike any interruption. However our Heavenly Father
knows that there are times when we need to undergo a construction period. There are
some area's in our lives that have gotten full of potholes. These area's need to be striped
and repaved; made smooth and straight again.
These construction times in our lives are the times that are marked by trials and tribulations.
Our spiritual paths seem to cloud over with doubt, pain, uncertainty, fear and sorrow. Yet
it is in these very needful times of our lives, these construction zones, that we grow and
mature in our Christian walk.
James 1:2 & 3, 12 "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations:
knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. Blessed is the man that
endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which
the Lord hath promised to them that love Him."
Doubt, pain, uncertainty, fear and sorrow are not things that we happily welcome, but they
are things that God uses as sandpaper in our lives. They sand away the stubbornness, pride, selfishness, arrogance, defiance, bitterness and anger that reside within our hearts. They
work to make us pliable in the hands of the great Master Builder of our souls. He see's
past the construction zone to the improved servant of God that will emerge. Don't fight
these construction zones and try to get around them somehow. Learn to accept them from
our loving Lord as something good and needful in your life.
We find this beloved promise from God in Romans 8:28, "And we know that all things
work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to
His purpose."
The tombstone of Ruth Bell Graham (Billy Grahams wife) says this, "End of Construction,
Thank you for your patience." This is something that can go on the tombstone of every
child of God!
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