How to build a great city

There was once a Master Builder that decided to build a great city, so He began to work.  As He was laying bricks His small son came to Him and wanted to help.  The Master Builder gave him some brick and mortar and all the tools he needed and gave him a place to work.  The young man worked tirelessly to help his Father day after day, because he loved his Father very much and wanted to please his Father.

The young child often bragged to his friends about how he and His Father were building a great city and how hard he worked.  All his friends were really impressed that this young man was working so hard to help his Father build this great city.

Many years later the son, now a young man, decided to look over the great city he had helped his Father build.  He saw what a great builder his Father was and how everything was perfectly in place.  He was amazed at how much care his Father put in everything He did.  He soon came to the place his Father had placed him many years before.  But as he looked over the bricks that had been laid he realized that it was not the work of a child, but of a Master Builder.  His Father had went back over every brick and fixed the mistakes the young boy had made so that the end result would be perfect.  It was only then that He realized that he was not helping his Father build a great city, but that his Father was building him.  His Father did not need the boy’s help, but allowed the boy to participate so he could learn to be the man the Father wanted his son to be. 

If you try to love your family the way you should, you will mess it up, but god will fix it.
If you try to witness to others you will mess it up, but God will fix it.
If you try to live a life without sin you will mess it up, but God will fix it.
God doesn’t need you to build His kingdom but allows us to participate so we can learn to be what He wants us to be.

"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”