EVER-PRESENT HELP

The longest eighteen inches in the world is from the head to the heart. Intellect to faith. Talking about faith, about God, is easy. Standing in faith when every fiber of the carnal mind screams in opposition, isn’t. The back of every American dollar bill states “In God We Trust” but how few truly do. Building things has been a spiritual teaching device used for thousands of years. The Great Rabbi, being a carpenter, uses it to great effect. In Matthew he teaches that those who demonstrate faith by action build their spiritual house/consciousness “upon a rock” which will withstand the inevitable floods (trouble and difficulties of all stripes) while those who only pay lip service to Living on the Spiritual Basis build their “house” on sand “and great was the fall of it (Matthew 7:27)” It is easy to be spiritual, loving, gracious, etc when life is going well. You can build a structure on any ground as long as the sun is shining and the wind is nothing more than a breeze, but to do so in the belief that conditions will never change is a fools errand, yet many do this very thing spiritually and then are devastated when the rains come and the winds blow and their structure collapses. They typically compound the error by then blaming God for the storm. We chose the materials our house will be constructed of, the construction practices employed, how well we adhere to the blueprints, for it matters little the quality of the materials if they poorly installed, the blueprint ignored. The Good News is the greatest builder of all will step in at any point and He will set the project (our consciousness) right if we will only place our trust in His guidance, love and direction. By this simple reliance on a power greater than ourselves our structure is solid, well built, able to withstand any coming storm.