Sandbags

"And my desire is to have You near
Lord You know that You are welcome here
Before such love, before such grace, I will let the walls come down"
The King of Love by Rita Springer

Are you ever faced with a recurring situation in which it seems no matter what you do your actions are wrong? Tonight I was listening to the words of The King of Love by Rita Springer and was struck with the thought that many times the issues in our lives have become walls that surround us. Sometimes we build the wall to protect us. Other times, the wall is built to hide the hurt and pain associated with the issue. Still other times the wall is built during the silent hours of the night and seemingly appears suddenly in our hearts and lives. The idea clearly revealed to me is that I am the carpenter responsible for the construction of the walls of my life.

This song reminds me that I need to be the one to let the walls come down. I think at times we tend to reinforce the foundation of the walls in our life instead of letting them be torn down. What I mean by this is simply we stack the sandbags of life to strengthen the walls of our heart. The sandbags are filled with the hurt from this, the pain from that, the suffering of my past, the losses of yesterday, and the fears of tomorrow. Each sandbag is any number of excuses tied up in a handy little bag that really hides the contents of the bag. Inside each sandbag is a mess of sand pebbles. Individually, they are unable to do much of anything to anyone. Being hit by one grain of sand is no cause for concern. However, being sandblasted by thousands of sand particles is enough to get anyone’s attention. Think about the weight of just one sand particle. There really isn’t much to it, is there? Now think about the weight of millions of grains of sand. You get the picture.

Life is full of millions of individual grains of sand. We chose to either collect or release those grains as we journey through life. If we choose to collect them, we end up with a wall of sandbags that are just a collection of the many individual things in life. Is that wall serving to protect or to hinder us? You see, the same wall that can protect us from our enemies is the same wall that will hinder our forward progress in life. In order to gain the blessings of Christianity, we need to be willing to open the sandbags of our life and pour out the sand that once fortified the walls of our life. God will give you the strength to pour out and destroy the walls of our life. He will give us the strength to rise above the rubble of our broken hearts.