God Is in Charge of Your Reputation
Adapted from Daily Devotions from Psalms
Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.
When we try to build our lives and our reputations in our own strength, we are leaning on the arm of flesh (ourselves and other people). We work hard to do everything we think will cause us to be successful from a worldly perspective. But today’s scripture indicates such effort is in vain. The Lord is the One who builds our lives and our reputations, according to His good plans for our lives.
Philippians 1:6 assures us that He who has begun a good work in you will [continue to] perfect and complete it until the day of Christ Jesus [the time of His return] (AMP). God will complete the good work He has begun in you and me. We can be certain of this.God is the One who started the good work in you, and He is the One who will finish it. We should always do the part He gives us to do, but we should never try to do anything without leaning entirely on Him. We need to be patient and rest in Him as He accomplishes what needs to be done instead of intervening according to our own ideas when things are not happening as quickly as we would like or in the way we would like. There are certain responsibilities we need to fulfill in our lives, and there are certain things only God can do. Take the pressure off yourself by leaning on the arm of the Lord instead of the arm of the flesh.
Prayer of the Day: Lord, help me to be patient as You complete the good work You have begun in me.
