Today’s Daily Lesson comes from 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verses 10 through 15:
10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Each builder must choose with care how to build on it. 11For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ. 12Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—13the work of each builder will become visible, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each has done. 14If what has been built on the foundation survives, the builder will receive a reward. 15If the work is burned, the builder will suffer loss; the builder will be saved, but only as through fire.
The work of the builder is judged by the fire.
We look at the building and we delight in its beauty and are awed by its size on the day when the ribbon is cut. It is awe-inspiring. Everyone looks at it thinks it is awesome.
But it’s one thing to open a building; it’s quite another to keep it open. The building is judged not on the day it opens, but on the day the fire comes. And the one question the judgment is based is this: “Did it last?”
We see many things going up all around. Institutions rise and fall. Businesses come and go. Flash in the pan preachers flash their wares for a little while on the latest YouTube Channel. It’s all very sensational; but it doesn’t last. It’s gone with the wind.
Mae Cora Peterson is 101 years old and a member of my church. She’s sharp as a tack and has a saying I like a lot. “Been here will be here when come here has done come and gone.”
Wherever we’re building, let us build to last. Let us build so that what we’re building will be here even when we’ve come and gone.
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