All around our city, there are buildings going up. Some are hotels, some industrial, some residential, some related to the University. Everywhere you look, there's a crane, and I think they're generally exciting signs. Cranes point to development, to new creations. There is generally always something lost in development, but a crane is a sign of ongoing investment in a community.
One of the things I love about Scripture is how God is constantly creating. God is planting a garden in the beginning. Here, God is talking about building a vineyard. God gathers a people, God creates a community, God builds a church, God establishes a Kingdom. God is a creative God, building for the future. God is at work, building up, establishing.
Sin tears down, destroys, levels. Sin seeks to destroy what God is building and the people God is building with.
Let us mourn where sin tears down, and let us join with God in God's creative building projects as God builds towards the future. May we look forward in hope to what God is doing around us.
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