We are all engaged in building our consciousness during every waking hour. This work is invisible, silent, and consequently overlooked by the bulk of mankind. Nevertheless, it is the most fundamental and the most far-reaching activity in life. Hour by hour, and moment by moment, we are building good or evil, failure or success, happiness or suffering into our life by the ideas that we harbor, the beliefs that we accept, the scenes and events that we rehearse in the hidden studio of the mind. This fateful edifice, upon the construction of which we are perpetually engaged, is nothing less than our self – our personality, our identity on this earth, our very life story as a human being.
That wondrous building, the spiritual consciousness, is called in the Bible the Temple of Solomon, and we are told two wonderful things about that building. It was built without any noise (and we know that thought is soundless), and it was built upon a rock.
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building (1 Kings 6:7).
… be thou my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me (Psalm 31:2).
When we analyze our thoughts, words and deeds, what kind of life does this review indicate that we are building? If our actions are loving, selfless and uplifting, then we are building a strong house on a rock. If not, then we need to go to our spiritual Home Depot and get some help. We can find our local spiritual Home Depot by picking up our Bible.
Building on the rock,
Z gardener
The gift and treasure of silence!
So necessary for any creative work!
And what creative work can compare to the construction of our own consciousness
Remaining in silence, brooding over a nugget of truth from Scripture, releases power and the involvement of Heaven into our lives. What a way to build!
Silence quickens the sight and hearing; just as it does our insight and discernment. Silence whets both the inputs and outputs of our souls.