Rebuilding the Ruins
Saturday, 13th week in Ordinary Time
Amos 9: 11-15; Mt 9: 14-17
I have heard many a builder say, it takes double the effort to rebuild something that is already built vis-a-vis building something fresh. It is true. Rebuilding or restoring is a work of an expert. The Lord when he promises to rebuild Jerusalem, restore the Lord's people, proves Godself to be an expert. Not all can manage. It takes completely a different aptitude to build up people. It is easy to find fault, criticise and break people but to build them up, more so to rebuild them from their ruins, it takes God to do it.
Those who rebuild are Godly, those who rebuild have the touch of the Master's hand, those who rebuild have a quality that is so close to the quality of the Creator. Let us be renewed in the Lord to see the good in others, those traits that will build them up and build the community of faith.Let us beseech the Lord for the gift to build up!