Built In Christ

I’ve played guitar since I was 12 years old, but if I’m being honest my playing peaked around 16. Since then, I know how to play chords and keep rhythm but not much else. I remember one day going to a friend’s cousin’s house and he picked up my guitar and said for me to tell him something to play. I picked an obscure song from a not so hugely popular band and he picked up my guitar and played it to perfection. My guitar made sounds it had surely never made before and I was in awe. And it got me thinking, an instrument is just an instrument. What really matters is who is playing it.

In Ephesians 2 Paul talks about believers as materials that are used by God to spread the good news.

18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. (Ephesians 2:18–22, ESV)

We, the followers of Jesus, are being built into a dwelling place for the Lord. And we are still being built. We have not arrived at the final capstone being placed, but we have been built from the cornerstone of Jesus life and work, the foundation of the apostles and those who have come before us. And there is much more still to come as the Lord continues to be the master builder with the materials of our lives!

In His Service,

Pastor Jared