The House You're Building

  I don’t know if you’ve been involved in a building project.  Like me, if you work in a field far removed from construction, many of the steps involved can be foreign to you.  Several years ago we built a house.  It was a “spec house,” meaning we met with a company who offered several floor plans and we got to pick out some of the details within-which color carpet, what stain the cabinetry would have, which door handles matched our coordinated design scheme.  I was truly overwhelmed with all the decisions and details, even though compared to those building custom homes our choices were minimal.  At a certain point, I just wanted someone to make those design decisions for me!    I’m so grateful when it comes to worship, God has laid out a plan for us.  For how would we begin got decide how to worship a God so holy and majestic as our God, so different and other? From the beginning God makes it clear that He puts boundaries around how He wants to be worship.  In Genesis 4:4, we see God