Foundation

Hello Everyone:

This morning I went to drop the kids off at school and while I was driving and praying about several diferent things, the Lord told me He wanted to talk to me about "Building A Foundation". As I looked around, I was driving through downtown Campinas and there are several tall buildings. Some are absolutely beautiful!

So, the Lord started telling me: You know Jordania, all these buildings you now see, required an unseeing work of foundation. Building a foundation is a necessary and vital work for any construction, and it is also a hard job, with not much excitement during this time. You don't see people passing around a building on its foundation and saying "wow, that looks amazing!" The wows come long after a lot work has been done.

We have a tendency to celebrate the final product, because it is exciting and it is something we can see now, and we are a generation of the NOW. What makes me think of my kids, specially my daughter Jordan.

We are working on teaching her manners and first time obedience. So, we have had good days, and not so good days with the results, however we keep on working HARD with her, but some days I think. Is she ever going to get it? How many times do I need to say the same thing for it to get through her? And then, all of the sudden, she responds in a very positive way, and that gives me hope that this hard work of foundation will produce a well mannered young lady and a kind, polite adult (I hope). So, the Lord said to me. You got it! You are talking about her adult life, something that will less for years to come.

Back to the downtown buildings, the Lord kept speaking to me and saying: See how different they are? Some can endure more than others, because its foundantion has the "ingredients" that will pass the test of time, bad weather, earthshakes and so on. Others won't be here in thirty or fifty years, because its foundation couldn't endure the test of time and history. So, what kind of building do you want to be?

God is beautiful and I am so in love with Him, I can't even describe it to you. I am greatful, that He gives us the choice to decide what kind of "building" we want to be. I am greatful that He is patient.

I would like to encourage you today, that if you feel like you have been in a "foundation" stage for a LONG time, wheather it is with your kids, work, business, ministry, relationship, health, hang in there. He is building something amazing, that will STAND for eternity, and that takes time. What is unseeing now, will make you stand tall and firm through time, and generations will be able to see how GREAT He is!

"May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by His grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strenghen you in every good deed and word." 2 Thessalonians 2:16.

Love you all!