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"All that we build is going to be inspected by God. Is God going to detect in His searching fire that we have built on the foundation of Jesus some enterprise of our own? These are days of tremendous enterprises, days when we are trying to work for God, and therein is the snare. Profoundly speaking, we can never work for God. Jesus takes us over for His enterprises, His building schemes entirely, and no soul has any right to claim where he shall be put."
A common entrapment for workers is the work itself.
It is so easy to get attached to projects,buildings, and efforts, and call it MY effort, MY work, My job. It is much like the ring around the neck of Frodo Baggins in the "Lord of the Rings". Enchantment, and entrapment welded into a circle. Letting go is unthinkable, and its sticky allure is self destructive. There is the trap.
Holding work in an open hand is our only hope of exit, the charm that breaks that enchanted weld.
The key words are it is His work, and we are servants. The only way to survive is to stay as servants.
"All that we build is going to be inspected by God. Is God going to detect in His searching fire that we have built on the foundation of Jesus some enterprise of our own? These are days of tremendous enterprises, days when we are trying to work for God, and therein is the snare. Profoundly speaking, we can never work for God. Jesus takes us over for His enterprises, His building schemes entirely, and no soul has any right to claim where he shall be put."
A common entrapment for workers is the work itself.
It is so easy to get attached to projects,buildings, and efforts, and call it MY effort, MY work, My job. It is much like the ring around the neck of Frodo Baggins in the "Lord of the Rings". Enchantment, and entrapment welded into a circle. Letting go is unthinkable, and its sticky allure is self destructive. There is the trap.
Holding work in an open hand is our only hope of exit, the charm that breaks that enchanted weld.
The key words are it is His work, and we are servants. The only way to survive is to stay as servants.
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