Is your greatest trophy just a foundation stone?

This is a thought that came to me as I was just pondering one day.

I was thinking about the church at Laodicea and Sardis, in Revelations.

Both churches thought that they were good and were strong in an aspect of their being. Then God comes along and effectively says, “You think you are good, but you are not as good or strong as you think you are.”

I do kind of feel that God could be saying to the churches (and individuals), “The thing where you think you are strongest at, if you are not careful, it could become a snare to you. Pride goes before a fall.”

I don’t think that God was really unhappy with the churches, but just wanting to take them to the next level.
I’ve already written about the church at Laodicea before, and this is a bit of a follow up. Summary of the previous post. God wants to take us to the next level, but in order to do so, he needs to shake us up a bit. He does this from a position of Love though.
The previous post can be found here. Are we like the church at Laodicea?

I do believe that God is happy with our trophies, but He also has something new for us to walk into.
Hence the thought, is our greatest trophy just a foundation stone… to the next great thing that God has for us???

If we keep our trophy on the pedestal that we would like to put it on, (you know how it can go, Look at what I have done 🙂 ), then will we be willing to move into the next thing that is waiting for us?

If we view our trophy as a foundation stone, then can we place it on the ground, stand on it, and then be ready for where God will take us next?

Hopefully it won’t break as we step onto it, but if it does, then maybe it wasn’t quite as good as we thought it was…???
If it does break, then don’t despair, God is able to rebuild all things and the next trophy could be so much better…. to be used as… a foundation stone…???

I’m not trying to say that we need to trample all our achievements into the ground, but are we willing to give our best back to God for Him to do with it, whatever He wants to?

A previous post, The Vast Battle, was running through my mind as I was pondering on this.
Instead of trying to relive an old battle, can we see the new land we should be looking to take hold of?

So, are we willing to use our best achievements as a foundation to step into the new that God has for us to move into?

As I have been thinking about this, Philippians 3:12-14, has come to my mind.
¹² Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. ¹³ Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Father,
Thank you that You do have new things for us to walk into.
Help us to keep our eyes on you, so that we can always follow your promptings.
Our Loving Father.
Amen.