Nuts and Bolts

My kids were helping me assemble their bunk beds late last night. When I asked them if they wanted to help, they jumped at the opportunity and became very excited. The goal was simple: assemble a couple of beds. Since neither of them have a background in construction, I had to get them started with a simple, yet important task: bring me nuts and bolts. Each time they brought me nuts and bolts, they asked for the next step, which I gave them: get another nut and bolt.

A lot of times when we get frustrated about a situation or season we are in, I think it’s important that we assess the nuts and bolts:
-Are we coming to the Father with what He asked us to bring? He has has asked us to consistently bring Him nuts and bolts. (Praise, worship, honor, time, tithes)
-Did He give me an instruction that I still haven’t completed? If He has moved on my heart to do something or to begin doing something, but I haven’t obeyed, then perhaps I am like that little boy who’s father told him to bring a nut and bolt and still hasn’t done it. And therefore the bed still isn’t built. Have I gotten distracted with a different project or task?

There is a ditch however, with this type of thinking by assuming full responsibility for the season at hand. Don’t get caught in the enemy’s trap! He wants us to feel guilty. God wants us to feel free, and reliant on Him (and not ourselves)!

Keep it simple, just bring God the nuts and bolts and do that thing He last told us to do, and our walk of faith will continue and get progressively stronger!


Luke 6:46-49
46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?47 As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. 48 They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. 49 But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. 

The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.”