Shaped Down Here to Fit Up There

“Shaped Down Here to Fit Up There”

I knew a man in another city who began to suffer some health problems. Unfortunately, they got worse and he lost his good paying job. Shortly after that, his wife decided she didn’t want to be married to him anymore, so she left him. Unable to make his mortgage payment, he was forced to sell his house and move in with other family members many States away. But, the only thing he didn’t lose was his faith in God. Like Job of the OT, he refused to abandon God, no matter what adversity hit him.

One day he stopped to watch some stone masons work on huge church. One of them was carefully chiseling a circular piece of stone. “What are you going to do with that?” asked my friend.

The workman said, “See that little opening way up there near the top of the spire of the church? Well, I’m shaping this stone down here so it will fit up there.”

Hot tears filled my friend’s eyes as he slowly walked away, for it seemed that God had spoken through that stone mason to explain why he was going through so much painful loss and trouble in his life, “I’m shaping you down here so you’ll fit up there.”

“You as, living stones, are being built up into a spiritual house for the Lord’s glory.” (I Peter 2:5)

Jesus answered, “You don’t understand now what I am doing, but you will understand later.” (John 13:7)