Built To Build 6

A Wie. Na Fede? Na fe nu te!

Oh yeah! I thought we should take a turn to Liberia. That's Greetings. How Are You? and I'm Fine in Grebo, which is spoken in the Northern side of that part of the world. I love learning new languages... I do hope you are doing lovely by His Grace of course and we should get right into it neh?

Cool. We have thus far been dealing with an understanding of what it means to be Built To Build. Matshidiso and her friend Sarah have illustrated just how pivotal it is to be careful with our words and what we believe as a result.

Sarah's cousin, Pontsho lives in Hammanskraal and she gives her a call while looking out of her second floor bedroom window. Her husband Trevor is sitting on the bed in the room.

Pontsho, "Sarah o kae my sister?"

Sarah, "Hai I'm doing fine wena Pontsho...what about you?"

Pontsho, "Aag ke sharp really. I'm just bothered by this neighbor of mine, Tlholo. Every morning I wake up and find her clothes hanging on the line neh?"

Sarah, "Jah and...?"

Pontsho, "And they are always somewhat dirty choma. Like, they have blotches and spots of dirt and I just wonder how she can't wash them clean. I'm so disappointed in her and she seems so proud of herself all the time."

Sarah, "So her clothes are a little dirty and yet she hangs them on the line like that?"

Pontsho, "Yes hle. I just wonder how her man deals with all this. I am looking at them now again and I'm just stoned..."

While she is talking she sees the husband who had left the bedroom push a step ladder right up against the wall nearest to the window, get on it and use a wet cloth to clean their bedroom window outside.

Sarah, "Hauw, Pontsho, why are you so silent now? Are you ok?"

Pontsho stays mum until Trevor cleans the entire window and another look at Tlholo's washing leaves her without words as they are sparkling clean.

Well I do wonder what Pontsho will tell Sarah next but for you and I, the point should be clear. What we say generally speaks of how we see things. Sometimes, it may be our very own perspective that shields us from the actual truth. We can see many things as dirty and wrong not necessarily because they are, but that our own 'window' is what is actually dirty and wrong.

Check this out: Ephesians 5:25-27 says, "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish."

Christ was and is all about washing His Bride, The Church, being us, with The Word so that our perspective can be as His is. Then, what and how we see, will inform what we believe, alter what we say and shape our reality. 

Ready?

We need to make sure that our 'window' which speaks of our perspective, reflects that which is of God. That is achieved by reading and meditating on The Word more and more, allowing it to cause us to see things the way Jehovah sees them. Then Faith and Speech become aligned correctly and we can do what is right in His Sight.

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