If I Were A Hammer


 


If I believe I am a hammer… everything looks like a nail!

 

All that comes across my path I see from that perspective… it is something to pound, pry, or beat into place. 

 

It is just the way I am. 

 

I am a hammer. 

 

Proverbs 23:7  “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…”

 

 

If I believe I am a performer… The whole world is my stage. 

 

If I believe I’m a teacher… I have a lesson for everyone. 

 

If I believe I am a prophet… “here is the Word of the Lord for you…”

 

 

BUT…

 

 

WHAT IF I BELIEVE I AM A SON OF GOD?. 

 

 

“BEN” – Hebrew for “son”– builder of the family name. 

 

 

We were never called to build “the Church.”

 

 

We were never told to build “the Kingdom”

 

 

We were never commanded to build a ministry. 

 

 

What are we to be building then???

 

 

Paul says in1 Corinthians 3:9–10:  

“For we are labourers together with God: 

 

YOU ARE God’s husbandry, 

 

YOU ARE God’s building. 

 

According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder,

I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon.

 But let every man TAKE HEED how he buildeth thereupon”…

 

 

He follows that in vs 16,:  “Know ye not that YOU ARE the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” 

 

 

And then a warning in vs17: 

“If any man defile the temple of God (you),

him shall God destroy;

 for the temple of God is holy, 

which temple YOU ARE.”

 

We are sons of God sent to RE-PRESENT our Father… 

 

Building the family name…

 

Building on HIS holy temple… 

 

people… 

 

not organizations. 

 

 

We get so focused on protecting who we believe we are as a tool, we forget what Paul said earlier in 1 Corinthians 3:4–7:

 

“…are you not carnal…”

 

“…Who then is Paul, 

and who is Apollos, 

 

but ministers by whom ye believed…

 

I have planted, 

Apollos watered; 

but God gave the increase. 

 

So then neither is he that planteth any thing, 

neither he that watereth; 

 

BUT GOD… “

 

 

HE IS EVERYTHING !

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