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I've been reading a book on America's infrastructure recently (yes, yes, even my husband asked me the other day...you're reading WHAT?!). It has been a fascinating look at how our nation's roads, bridges, subways, and traffic laws came into being--all those things we take for granted every day on our daily commutes or in all our goings-and-comings around the towns in which we live.
It got me thinking about how some of the most impressive pieces of human architecture--skyscrapers--came into being back during those Great Depression years.
You see, to build a magnificent soaring structure, the secret these civil engineers discovered is that you must first build DOWN.
Way, way down, stories and stories down into the earth until you reach a firm layer of bedrock.
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Then, and only then, could you start to construct a towering structure that would come to stand over a thousand feet high.
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Jesus spoke about this all during His ministry here on Earth, thousands of years ago:
"Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." (Matthew 23:12)
This is echoed throughout the scriptures from Christ's followers such as James and Peter:
"Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you" (1 Peter 5:6)
"Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you." (James 4:10)
So there you have it: You must go down to go up.
I pray that God would continue to show me what this means for me, in my daily life. Serving Him in the mundane ways, day-in, day-out, as a homeschooling mother of three. Helping my neighbors, cooking, cleaning, reading, praying. I pray He would give me the strength to humble myself and not to promote myself, to trust in His timing and in His way to glorify me, to ultimately glorify Him.
Yes, it's true.
I'll never look at a skyscraper the same again.
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