Building Up

So then let us pursue the things of peace and the things for building up one another. 

Let each of us please his neighbor with a view to what is good for building up. 

Romans 14:19;15:2

The Lord deeply impressed me on these verses concerning building up. Never in my Christian life did I give more importance to building up. The Lord in His mercy is leading me through and through. The building up of one another is of utmost important for the Lord's testimony. Mere spirituality with all pious pursuits without proper and adequate building up will only hamper the growth of the Body. Enough tearing down of God's work have been witnessed among spiritual people who are never builded up with one another. The more spiritual a person is, the more individualistic he tends to be and the more independent he becomes, so much so that, he can hardly be built up with any one. However, in the Lord's recovery of life and by life, I am very much blessed to be balanced in every aspect of my Christian life.

In our church life, we must pay attention to the building up; whatever we say or do must all be for the building up. No longer merely on the realm of right and wrong, of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but on the ministry of life for the building up of one another to build up the organic Body of Christ. This is the purpose of our Christian life in the church life. Minus building up, all is vanity, even spiritual matters; for all gifts and the gifted ones are "For the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of Christ- Eph.4:12."

Lord, build me up with others and deal with every barrier that hinders the building up.