It must be something to build a wall.
Luke 6:47 I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice. 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
To factor in the bricks size and shape and weight. And to even feel the smoothness of the clay before it is fired and the texture once it is fired. Because the texture is added and doesn't come by itself.
And once the foundation is laid and the wall is erected what an amazing thing to see, not knowing the integrity or the weight except by engineering math.And not knowing the length of its days. Will it be like the Acropolis or the Parthenon or Pyramids? Will it be like sand castles on the beach or the Twin Towers or old nostalgic buildings demolished to make room for more concrete beauty.
I would like to think the foundation be permanent, but even that can be dug up and bulldozed. I would like to think the walls would be permanent but even that will come down, by hands as the Berlin Wall and if not by hands, earthquake or tornado, tidal wave, or tsunami.
Whatever is built by hands and man's power will never be permanent.
But whatever is built that comes down can always be rebuilt and it will continue to repeat the old until the foundation and structure and walls are tested with 'truth'. There is nothing that is permanent that is made with man's hands.
What is permanent is 'truth', He is the foundation. These walls will not be shaken or washed away.
1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. 10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds.11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Video & Song
'Come Thou Fount' Jars of Clay
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4f7tx25O9XM&feature=related
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