2 Corinthians 3:5-6 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

The opposite of building with GOLD is building with WOOD. It signifies your works which emanate from your humanity or your natural man.

When you are building with gold, the source of your efforts is God – it is God at work in you willing and doing of His good pleasure. In contrast, you can be overly reliant on your natural strengths and abilities and virtues – thinking you can do it by yourself; thinking you have what it takes by your own strength; thinking you have schemes and tactics and ideas by yourself, and you don’t need God.

And that always ends in disaster and death. When a man trusts and touts his abilities to the point of claiming he does not need God, that is the height of foolishness. FOR IT IS A FOOL WHO SAYS IN HIS HEART THERE IS NO GOD.

Why? Because, like Apostle Paul said, “We are not sufficient of ourselves. OUR SUFFICIENCY IS OF GOD.”

The AMPLIFIED version says, _”Not that we are fit (qualified and sufficient in ability) of ourselves to form personal judgments or to claim or count anything as coming from us, but our power and ability and sufficiency are from God.”

 Let that be your thinking and your inclination, dearly beloved. Be blessed!

               GRACEFUL MORNING