All of us at some time have been given a job that we don’t want to do. Perhaps our spouse wants us to help in the garden, to trim the hedges or mow the lawn. It could be an assignment from school is troubling our son, or perhaps our daughter is finding the transition into teenage life challenging. It is so easy to put things off into the idealised future.
There was a man I heard of who was given one last house to build. He didn’t want the job – he was approaching retirement – however, he was doing the job because a friend asked him to build it. He kept procrastinating, and finally gave in rushing its completion. The job was ok – it certainly wasn’t faulty, even good compared to some other tradesman standards, but it lacked the enthusiastic professionalism for which he was known. The man knew it too.
Eventually, he handed the keys over to his friend glad the job was over.
The friend handed the keys back.
“The house is yours. It’s my gift too you.”
If you were the builder would you suddenly exclaim: “Why didn’t you tell me? If I had known, I would have built stronger foundations, put in nicer lights, done .......” Because in truth our future is our own creation - our own building.
Some of us think that if we plod along in life doing no harm to others we will be rewarded with our Garden of Eden in heaven. The truth is our paradise will be built on the life and qualities we build now. If we have built much then our future will be strong. If our life is wasted well perhaps our paradise may be a little sparse, or we may find ourselves being asked “What have you done? You are full of excuses. Go back and try again and when you have lived the life you were sent down to earth to build then you can come back and see Me.”
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