Brick Streets

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“Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 3:11).
Do you like brick streets? If you live in Liberal, Kansas, or my home town in Oklahoma, I hope the answer is yes, but it may not be. Many people do not like the noise of driving down brick streets. In this country we do not know how to keep them up. A few years ago I went to Holland to visit my brother and what did I see? The green country and the great old buildings and the roads. Some of the streets dated back to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The streets were all brick.
A brick is just a small and unimpressive thing. But when bricks are put side by side they make a street or a great structure that can last for a long time. A Christian is like a brick, in that a Christian by one’s self is not very impressive and sometimes may be used in a destructive way. Bricks, however, that are put together in a good and proper way, can and will last for generations. In Holland we visited a building site of a town where a street was being built. The people working made sure the ground or foundation for the brick was strong and right before the first brick came into hand. Today, we as Christians can last but we need to be on the foundation that is Christ Jesus.
—J. F. Carter

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