To Build a Home

You can build anyone a home. However, they are equally responsible for maintaining the integrity of that house. Furthermore, it is up to that person to build their own home: to cherish, to love, to devote themselves to the foundation, and to place each brick with consistency, patience, and morality. The house you have built for yourself is the staple remedy for the walls God wants you protected in and the windows He wants you to view out of. There is a roof to shelter you from the showers and winds of enemy forces. The hill upon which it is built looks across a greater landscape, not of your design, but serves as a reminder that the Lord remains with endless possibilities. “I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut,” (Revelation 3:8).

The fields are bountiful with fruit and grain, so long as the harvest they deliver is relentlessly fought for.  Streams flow with water, cool to the touch, but are meant to fill the soul with forgiveness when pressed to the lips. Lambs and the innocence of their mothers are herded diligently and respectfully to remind the babe that forgiveness lies only in the strongest: the fairest. Dirt lies beneath those roots, underneath the waters, and below the feet of those who are not afraid that flesh, bone, and blood are meant to return to what His grace pulled the living from. “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows,” (James 1:17).

For it is the sun that shines over that rooftop of your home upon the hill. The moon, the stars, and the designed constellations of His artwork remain high in the darkness to show the world, His creation, that the darkness is never without the light. A sky, vast in animosity and tenderness, was not designed to keep His children grounded, but to create an understanding that there is no finality for a ceiling of hope. We look upwards to pray. We look upwards to see the home our Father has built. More so, it is our duty to serve the Lord by looking at the walls of the home we have built in His honor. Our duty is to reveal to the winds that sweep across the lands that they shall only carry bountiful laughter, joyous praise, and utterance of optimism. His children were meant to fight for the righteous and fight harder for the wicked. A sword and shield may stand a chance against an adversary, but it is by the word of God that all foes are relinquished. This world holds the fierceness of free will, but it is in free will that we shall always find forgiveness. “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love,” (1 Corinthians 16:13-14).

-Nico Alexander Cerceo

-December 9, 2025

-10:03 AM