I guess you could say I'm into foundations lately.
Imagine, if you will, a five-story apartment building which you own. At the fifth floor you decide you're going to blow out the exterior wall and build a new room suspended over the ground below with virtually no supporting structure. A wise friend rushes up to you in mid-progress, assuring you that this endeavor is way out of code (not to mention extremely dangerous) and urges you to stop and rethink what you are doing.
Inevitably we all do things that stray from God's perfect will, including outright sin. We do things and get into thinking patterns that are not supported by the foundation of our relationship with Him and his Holy Word, the Bible. We sense we are off course, yet sometimes we press on.
Our wise friend (i.e., the Holy Spirit) is warning us, pointing to the building codes and standards (i.e., the Bible). If we don't heed the warnings, our "building" will crumble and we incur damage upon our lives. However if we listen and repent, we will save ourselves from a lot of hurt and ruin.
God does more than just help us to change course, though. We actually incorporates our mistakes into our lives for good (see scripture above)*.
Imagine God dropping a plumb line straight down from your furthest progress on the attempted building "experiment". First there is more foundation built to accommodate the new structure. Then God proceeds to build and incorporate the mistake into the building so that not only is it stronger than before, but the new design is more beautiful than the old.
Thanks be to God who can even turn our failures into something good.
*Incidentally, the Greek word for "together" is where we get the word "synergy"
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