Brick is one of the materials commonly used to construct buildings. Together with other materials, brick has a significant position to form and protect the strength of the building. As long as there are still buildings being built, the brick-making industry will continue to be needed.
As we know, bricks are man-made. This stone has a mud bottom material. After going through the processing process, the soft mud turns into a hard and sturdy stone so that it has more benefits and value. So, what can we learn from these bricks?
We can see how the effort that is being tried becomes something that is not useful so that it is more useful for many people. Not many people need mud, but after the mud is turned into bricks, people use it when they want to build houses. This is how we make ourselves more useful to others.
Why must it be useful?
Because what else is our goal in this world if not to be useful people? By being useful, it means that we are grateful for what God has shared with us. We do not waste what God has allotted for us. By being useful, we have lightened the burden of others.
What did the mud and bricks mean?
Like that we are. People who are not useful are like mud. Soft, sticky, make dirty. What can we do with mud? Meanwhile, useful people are like bricks. Stronger, stronger. Many seek, many need.
We can also think of this mud and bricks as our individual. We can observe that people with strong personalities are sought after more than soft people.
How to be a strong individual?
To become a strong individual, of course you need to go through a process in life, as well as processing mud into bricks. The various problems that come are a process that makes us stronger and more experienced. By going through this problem, we pass a session and make our individual stronger than before. Patience, intensity, sincerity, hard work, and other good things will continue to be honed as our lives go on. It's not easy indeed, but if we try, don't be lazy, and go through it the right way, then all of it will produce good results.
But if you think about it, just one brick is not enough to build a building, right?
Well, that's right. But no, by becoming a necessary brick, we can become a system for the common good with other bricks, sand, cement, and other materials.
Being useful reduces the burden for God, as you have said, at least we can be able to do some things ourselves