Building For Eternity
Minister Gloria Brown

1/9/2007  - "Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?” (Luke 14:28 NIV)

Our Lord refers not to a cost that we have to count, but to the cost which He has already counted. That was the thirty years spent in Nazareth, and three years of popularity, scandal, and hatred, the deep and impossible to come to understand agony in Gethsemane, and His assignment of Calvary’s Cross. Jesus has counted the cost. Men cannot laugh at Him and say that He began to build, and was not able to finish.

The condition of discipleship laid down by Our Lord in Luke 14:26-27 & 33, means that, the men and women that He uses in His mighty building enterprises (endeavors) are those in whom He has done everything. “If any come to Me, and hate not……, he cannot be My disciple.” Our Lord implies that the only me and women that He will use in His building enterprises are those ones who love Him personally, passionately, and devotedly beyond any closest ties that they may have on this earth. These conditions sound stem, but they are glorious. All that we build is going to be inspected by God, who in His searching fire is going to detect whether we are building on the foundation of Jesus Christ, or our very own agendas.

These are days when the snare is, when we are trying to work for God. We could never work for God, Jesus takes us over for His enterprises, His building entirely, and no soul has any right to claim where he shall be put.