Some things are too big to move out of our way.
We can’t kick them aside. If we try, we’ll only bruise our toes.
We must learn to live with them, work them into our expectations, and let them form part of who we are.
Take the humble boulder. It sits there, often beautiful, but many times in our way.
If we desire to build a house right where the boulder stands, we can try to blast the boulder out of our way . . . or we can work it into our design.
In 2010, Olson Kundig built The Pierre, a house squeezed into the massive boulders that form Washington’s San Juan Islands. The original boulders form fireplaces, walls, and even washbasins in the glass-and-concrete structure.
The home is more beautiful for what wasn’t removed: the boulders that form the island’s windswept landscape.
Proverbs 6:23 reveals the boulders we can’t blast out of the way:
“For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life.”
God’s Word wasn’t written as a test of whether God’s law was convenient to mankind.
God didn’t say, “If you please.”
We aren’t given the latitude of choosing right or wrong when we profess to follow him.
We have a standard to uphold, one written in stone, the boulder around which we are to build our lives.
Let’s be smart like Kundig. Let’s quit trying to blast away the truth of the Word and build our faith among the immovable tenets of God’s wisdom.
We won’t stumble over the truth when we allow it to become our steppingstone toward God.
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