Arise And Build Together

Two generations share one house, and the fathers prepared abundantly. Like David, who gave over and above everything for a temple he would never stand in, they paid the cost so the next generation could begin with more. Their preparation is the floor, not the ceiling, and the sons are called to arise beside them and build, never to replace them. The danger is receiving the room and refusing the cost that built it, as Samuel’s sons did with the house their father left. So the sons must follow the fathers into the ground, like the grain of wheat that dies to bear many seeds. We match the cost and carry it further for the sake of the Gospel, not to build our own names. The work takes endurance through the dull middle, like stones shaped in a quarry where no one is watching, until all the work is finished. We do not need to do everything today, but we can put one old truth into practice, open one table, and speak one testimony. Nobody in the chain replaces anybody; each one receives and hands it on, and the house grows broader as it rises. Arise and build, together.