I couldn’t repair your breaks, so I made your horn louder” – Mater from Cars

Have you ever gone for a drive but then there are traffic cones everywhere? Your Sunday drive has become a dodge of all the construction equipment, workers, cones and holes.

Have you ever considered that YOU are a construction zone??

Well let me be the first to say I didn’t think of myself that way until the other day when I was driving around town. There were orange cones everywhere. God was like “Hey, you’re a construction zone”.  In a world of plastic surgery and diet plans, you may think this is a cosmetic article.You’re wrong….I’m talking about the inner you.

Last November I started to be discipled. When I started, I thought that by the end I would be this perfect person, employee, friend and future spouse. Then this summer I started an internship at a church and thought after THIS I will be the perfect person, employee, friend and future spouse.

I was wrong…

You see when we read Gods word, sharing studies with each other, that’s the construction equipment; holes are areas that God intends to reveal to us. But, he doesn’t reveal them all at once, otherwise we would get stuck in the hole. Cones are things that God has said no more to or not yet. And workers are everyone you encounter, whether a family member, fellow employee, neighbor down the street or a long lost friend. Each of these aspects are in place to help us grow on the inside.

2 Timothy 4 English Standard Version (ESV)

Preach the Word

4 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: ² preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. ³ For the time is coming when people will not endure sounda]”>[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, ⁴ and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. ⁵ As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.⁶ For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. ⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. ⁸ Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing. 

The take away is, don’t be discouraged but INCOURAGED!! you have come this far and GOD will continue till He calls you home. You just have to be willing to do what is seemingly unpopular and uncomfortable so that on that day you will hear, “Well done good and faithful servant”