Be Careful How You Build

1 Corinthians 3:15 (NET)If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

When Tobin saw in a dream that she had been building with hay since the day she started doing ministry work, she was very disturbed because she had just read in a book about how the Lord will judge our work, and those whose works are tried by fire and get burned will not be rewarded. She knew she was saved, but she did not want all her effort in the kingdom to amount to nothing. She started asking the Lord what was wrong with the way she was serving Him. It did not take her time to realize that the Lord was not pleased with the direction her ministry was going. She was more interested in healing people and making a name than in saving souls and making a convert. Her members knew her and feared her more than they knew and feared the Lord. She also realized that the desire to gather more money was now her driving force in ministry.

She decided to go on a retreat and seek the face of the Lord for the direction she would go in righting the wrongs in the way she was building her ministry.

Like Tosin, many have been warned by the Lord concerning the way they are building, but some ignore such warnings and despise the people through whom such warnings come. The Lord is good and He would not allow any of His servants to continue to build wrongly without sending a word of warning and correction.

Go into today remembering that one of the greatest hindrances to acceptable service in God’s kingdom is when the love of money comes in.
—Abraham Damilola Arigi

Yearly Bible Plan: Job 13-14

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