The purpose of the hammer - Part III
29 My words are a powerful fire; they are a hammer that shatters rocks. (Jeremiah 23:29) Our third example of the use of a hammer is in the construction process - it is used to build something - to fasten that which it hits. It is the combining of the various parts, (nail, wood, or another object), that the position of strength and usefulness takes form. For example, wood in a pile has not much use until it is combined with a few nails. The work of the hammer is to drive the nail into the wood, joining it and giving it form. Soon, that wood takes on a sense of usefulness to the one who is doing the building. There is a strength that comes in joining the wood. When God brings pieces of our lives into alignment and then firmly "fixes" them to his foundation of love and grace, our lives take on a strength that they were missing before. Without that "ordering" of the parts (body, soul, spirit, emotions, mind, etc), we are nothing more than a whole lot of parts!