Week 11: And Still, The Builders Build...

If you ever drive down through the main road in Orem, Utah you will find two very large buildings on your right. Lost and abandoned, these buildings are incomplete and unfinished. Once upon a time they had a builder, and that builder had a dream. The building would be large among the many it stands next two. With the finest materials. It would hold many people and there would be many memories made in that building. It would be one that everyone would want to go in... just to see whats in side. It would be beautiful. But as life went on... funds run low, the building abandoned and unfinished, the dream burnt out.

As a child I always drove by the building with my parents and assumed that it was a castle they were building for a princess.. I never understood that the builder just gave up.

We are sometimes as the builder. We have a big dream ahead of us and a heart inside of us and we will reach that dream no matter what. Sometimes we dream of building ourselves with the finest materials, that people could see by our beautiful exterior that we are children of God, and they would want to know us just because of the happiness that surrounds us. Sometimes we dream of being that princess.. that would one day enter into that "castle", God's castle.. to be sealed for time and all eternity. Sometimes we dream of going to school and getting an education, or waiting for a missionary; our missionary, to come home and take us to that castle. We all have dreams, big and small, but sometimes as life goes on... our desires run low and our dreams burn out.

We can become discouraged and lost and abandoned. We can be tempted and tried to the point where we wonder if the dreams we were hoping for are even attainable at all. Satan tries to tell us we are not good enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough, that there's no hope for us, that we're not worth it... but let me tell you, HE IS WRONG!

You have a God that loves you. He is yours and He loves you so much that He sent His son, Jesus Christ to die for us. To build us. Don't give up. No matter how lonely, or lost, or abandoned, or broken, or depressed, or sad, or unforgivable you think you are... you are NEVER too far away for the Savior's love. Turn to Him for the help you need to not only endure, but to have fun in the journey to your dreams. Keep on keeping on! Keep on building! Keep on pushing! You are worth it! And one day you will be in that castle, or at the very dream you once seen as unattainable, and you will look back and realize that those thing that once seemed so big, are but small stumbling points on your journey, and that those small stumbling blocks.... are the things that shaped you and built you into who you are today. So keep on building, and still, the builders build.