I tell my son I...
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I tell my son I want to play with the blocks with him. So we get the wooden blocks out and I find myself sneaking blocks away from his pile and then conning him into the idea of "building the biggest tower we can build." Perhaps it's the little boy in me that finds in these blocks, the challenge to use them all — in a tower as tall as the weight will support.
And so we (I) begin our (my) tower. The biggest blocks go on the bottom, then come the medium-size blocks, and finally the smaller pieces carefully placed on top of each other. When it's all over and my son has found other pursuits, I exclaim, "Wow! Look at the tower we built!"
In faith building, an opposite principle is at work. First, you begin with one small block: Christ ("a stumbling block" to some). As faith grows, the larger blocks of works and witness pile on this solid foundation. The world tells us a tower must have a large foundation. Our Lord inverses that order with the small foundation of but one stone. To the world this is foolishness. To us this is the only way to build.
And so we (I) begin our (my) tower. The biggest blocks go on the bottom, then come the medium-size blocks, and finally the smaller pieces carefully placed on top of each other. When it's all over and my son has found other pursuits, I exclaim, "Wow! Look at the tower we built!"
In faith building, an opposite principle is at work. First, you begin with one small block: Christ ("a stumbling block" to some). As faith grows, the larger blocks of works and witness pile on this solid foundation. The world tells us a tower must have a large foundation. Our Lord inverses that order with the small foundation of but one stone. To the world this is foolishness. To us this is the only way to build.
