Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Brick House


Symbol: House built with bricks

Lesson: Like a house built of bricks, building strong relationships takes time.

Illustration: Strong, enduring relationships are built over time. They do not happen instantly. It is something like building a home with bricks. Each brick is one more experience in the relationship that makes it solid and binding. One brick does not build a home, neither does one encounter build a relationship. Many bricks, carefully laid alongside and on top of each other, filled with mortar (the “glue” that binds the bricks together), can over time build protection to weather against any storm. Reinforcing those bricks with rods makes the structure stronger still. In relationships, the mortar is love and respect. The rods of stable and mature personalities add to the relationship.

Now, applying all this to our relationship with our Creator, we can see how impossible it is to expect God to accept foxhole Christians. They just haven’t made any attempt to build a relationship. God will not save a relationship that never existed. If a person never valued God enough to get to know Him before, what evidence does God have that the person will really remain loyal in the future? If you were in a friendship or some other close-tie relationship with a person that dismissively ignored you and treated you as unimportant, would you be inclined to help that person? Now, if that same person came to you crying for urgent help and promising loyalty and love, would you believe his words?

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