The wise man builds his house upon the rock

Matthew 7: 24-27 is the story of the wise and foolish builder.  This passage

seemed to speak to me today.  WE have dug many holes over the last week.  We

have completed one long hole 30ft x 2.5 ft x 5ft.  We have also completed 7

smaller ditches that are approx. 12 ft x 2.5 ft x 5ft.  Unfortunately, we

dug an 8th hole in the wrong place (at least Bruce and Jeremy did) so we

have spent the morning digging the correct one and filling in the wrong

one.  Yesterday's devotion was for patience, we need it.

 

We are here in Niger building a guest house.  We are building it in the

sand, are we the foolish builder.  NO.  Thank God for the sand, it has made

our job digging the foundation easier, but hopefully we are working to build

a rock solid foundation on which a building will be placed so that others

will be able to build their lives on solid rock - Jesus.  The foundation

will be built with concrete and metal - so don't worry we really are not

foolish builders.

 

We are moving along on the foundation digging and hopefully our goal (Kay

and mine) is that before we leave the foundation will be dug.  We still have

5 short holes and 3 and 1/2 long holes left - The long holes have part of

them dug that connect with the short holes.  The high today is 103 - so

during the heat of the day it is difficult to dig - we nap!  Kay and I are

enjoying working with the young Niger men - they want to learn English and

we are trying to learn Hausa, but every time we repeat a word they just laugh

so I don't think we are doing all that well.  Today we taught the song

Allelu, Allelu, Allelu, Alleluah - Praise the Lord with the motions. I just

think that we are a source of laughter to them.