Having built my first house, I thought I knew about construction, but I missed many details since our modular home was factory-built in Virginia, then trucked to its current location. There’s a reason for straight walls, firm floors, and steady ceiling fans: it’s called framing and blocking. Like a skeleton, framing defines the basic shape of the house and gives an overall rigidity to the structure. Blocking was new to me.
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Blocking provides a hidden strength behind pretty but thin walls. |
Many of you know wall stud centers are placed 16-inches apart. Every drywall or siding contractor knows where to find the stud. Once those outer layers are attached, however, finding a stud in a convenient location to hang, say, a roll of toilet paper or shower grab bar, requires a separate “blocking” piece of lumber installed between the studs (see picture). Although that grab bar is installed on an acrylic shower stall, behind it lay some hidden strength. Now there’s a spiritual lesson!
Christians over the centuries have born incredible burdens and trials, yet all know it was God the Holy Spirit who strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ … that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man. When trials come, He says my strength is made perfect in weakness. Be not dismayed; for I am thy God:I will strengthen thee. Paul claimed that the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me. May we all look past our vanity and trust the keeping of our souls to Jesus, our hidden strength.
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