The Master's Hand

A hammer in the wrong hand can be dangerous!  Many a good thumb has screamed out in pain by misplaced whack.  I seem to never have access to a hammer.  Mr. Bill locks all hammers in his tool cabinet.  I want to believe it's because he's found too many good hammers lying around outside -- not returned to their proper place, but it may be because he's found too many nails in walls where no nail should ever be.

 

When God uses a spiritual hammer on His children, it is never misplaced.  It's His spiritual "nails" that help us understand who we are and give way to Christ's purpose in our lives.  Ephesians 2:22 says, "In Whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit."  Sometimes I just long for a brief peek at my life's blue print, but where would the faith be in that!  Phillips Brooks writes, "Oh, if the stone can only have some vision of the temple of which it is to be a part forever, what patience must fill it as it feels the blows of the hammer, and knows that success for it is simply to let itself be wrought into what shape the Master wills."  God doesn't provide a periscope to see above, beyond, and around life's troubles.  What He does provide, however, is faith and patience as He quietly and effectively builds us into His design.  Yes, the hammering get tough sometimes but always remember: the hammer is always in the Master’s Hand.