DAILY DEVOTION: Under Construction (The Fanfare)

These are the ones that have stood up under the Master's construction programme. They look good! Outstanding products highlight their producer, bad ones bring disgrace. As we have looked into all that God has invested into our being excellent products, we need to know that there's coming a day when we SHALL be displayed before the entire universe as the works of God. If we had responded well to the building process our fanfare will be a grand occasion, but if we took the shortcuts that compromised our quality, then we may not be one of the frontline display. There might be a silver line then a precious stone line and then the others (1 Cor.3:12-15). There will be the gold line. Let's go for it! Let's work with our Builder from now and He will prepare us for then.
A coach named Mills took a young man and ask him to surrender to him (the coach). The youth started to improve but the coach would not say just yet how well he was doing. This might make him think he has arrived and abandon the programme that they were on. When the coach thought he was ready, he placed him in a race in New York and the kid easily chopped 0.02 seconds off the world record. For the next three Olympic Games and four World Championships, Usain Bolt was the one most people went to see. His fanfare was always a grand one. But it was all made possible because he surrendered himself to his coach.
God says to us: "Surrender yourself to Me and you will be made a frontline product on the day of the greatest fanfare this universe has ever seen. But if you decide to do your own thing, there's a lot of space at the back." Choose wisely!

Daniel 12:3: And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

Pastor Gary Williams is head of the Cedar Grove Baptist (Independent) Church, located at Cedar Grove Estate, Portmore, St Catherine, and also a certified counsellor. Send feedback to kgdaddie@yahoo.com or editorial@oldharbournews.com.