FAITH CAPSULE: God alone is the Building Builder that builds to perfection.

Ezra 4:1-5, Job 1:1

Outstanding building project is not without outstanding challenges. When God is set to build you up for His glory, uncommon challenges will come your way during the building process. Job was referred to as the richest man in the land. He was not just rich financially, but he was also rich spiritually. The Bible says, “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.” (Job 1:1) Job’s entire spiritual and financial blessing was not an indication that he could not experience challenging affliction. When challenges come, they will not be announced to but will rather impose themselves in your life. There were no warning signs for Job to prepare himself or his family before the challenges showed up. When God wants to build you for a great assignment or for His glory challenges will come with discouragement; trouble will show up and frustration will reign. God made a way for His house to be built in Jerusalem when He stirred up the spirit of Cyrus the king of Persia, “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah.” (Ezra 1:2) In this kind of building project which was called for by God, there should have been expectation for a hitch free construction, but it was not so. Opposition is an agent of frustrating challenge which always moves to bring down what needs to be built or rebuilt. Ezra and the Jews who volunteered to go and build the house of the Lord did not escape the opposition which was set against the project of God.
It is written, “Then the people of the land tried to discourage the people of Judah. They troubled them in building, and hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.” (Ezra 4:4-5) The pattern of oppositions in bringing challenges to every building construction is consistent in: discouragement, trouble, and frustration. One should continue to count on God for any challenge at all times. He is building or rebuilding you and you should pay attention for correction. Pay attention for the purpose of what you will be attending to and taking care of after you have been built. You will become a beautiful building; a building of God and a building that is not common. You will be a building which will always bring glory to His name. God alone is the Building Builder that builds to perfection for His name to be glorified.

Prayer for today: Ask God to see you through in all your oppositional challenges in Jesus name.