{"id":316,"date":"2018-03-29T19:05:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T19:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=316"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:44:11","slug":"jesus-the-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/29\/jesus-the-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus, the Builder"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The stone\u00a0which\u00a0the builders rejected<\/span><\/strong><\/em>
\nHas become the chief cornerstone.” Psalm 118:22<\/span><\/strong><\/em>
\nGuess what I learned today in my devotional?\u00a0 Jesus was actually a builder!
\nFrom my devotional “The Rook, The Road, and The Rabbi” by Kathie Lee Gifford:
\n“The word carpenter<\/strong>\u00a0in Matthew 13:55 and Mark 6:3 for how Joseph and Jesus made a living is the Greek word tekton<\/strong>.\u00a0 It means builder.<\/strong>”\u00a0 It went on to explain there were only rocks in Israel.\u00a0 “Jesus was not a carpenter.\u00a0 Jesus was a stone mason.”<\/em>
\nMind blowing!\u00a0 Until you stop and think about it.\u00a0 Jesus is the Master Craftsman.\u00a0 (By the way, it did clarify that tekton can actually be translated as stone mason or architect.)
\nHere’s a link to the devotional:\u00a0 http:\/\/bible.com\/r\/2vV in case you want to check it out.\u00a0 She really drew a lot of great analogies about how Jesus is the architect of Creation.\u00a0 How He brings order out of chaos. Really worth a read.
\nI digress.\u00a0 What really caught my attention is Jesus as a builder.\u00a0 When I think of my relationship with God and others, I think of them as being built.\u00a0 One day at a time.\u00a0 One interaction at a time.\u00a0 One moment at a time.
\nMy relationship with God is built every morning when I seek Him.\u00a0 When I open His Word and engage with it.\u00a0 When I lower myself to my knees and pray.\u00a0 When I seek His people and ask for their insight and wisdom.\u00a0 Over a span of 48 years, I have built a very strong relationship with God.\u00a0 We have gone through a lot of dark days together, as well as happy ones.\u00a0 Each of them built one stone at a time.
\nBuilding my relationship with God is what then builds my relationship with people.
\nWhen I’m praying for difficult relationships, I ask God for the building blocks I need to restore it, preserve it or enhance it.\u00a0 Building blocks can easily be defined as the fruit of the Spirit we find in Galatians 5:22-23:
\n“But the fruit\u00a0of the Spirit is love,\u00a0joy, peace,\u00a0forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>gentleness and self-control.\u00a0Against such things there is no law.<\/span>\u00a0“<\/em>
\nApplying those to any relationship will build it stronger.\u00a0 Building it on the Rock of Jesus will make it indestructable.\u00a0 I love what Ecclesiastes 4:12 says about relationships:
\n“A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.” (NLT)<\/em>
\nThe triple thread is God.
\nBuild first with Jesus, then build with people.
\nI love thinking about Jesus as a builder.\u00a0 Kathy Lee is right, there are a lot more applications from this one tidbit of information. For me, I went with Jesus the Builder.\u00a0 Grateful for His strong foundation!
\nWhat do you think?\u00a0 Is Jesus a builder in your life?
\n 
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“The stone\u00a0which\u00a0the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.” Psalm 118:22 Guess what I learned today in my devotional?\u00a0 Jesus was actually a builder! From my devotional “The Rook, The Road, and The Rabbi” by Kathie Lee Gifford: “The word carpenter\u00a0in Matthew 13:55 and Mark 6:3 for how Joseph and Jesus made a living is… Continue reading Jesus, the Builder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}