1 Corinthians 3:10-15 (NIV) 10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. 14 If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. 15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved — even though only as one escaping through the flames.”
Only work that is devoid of self-regard will survive that consuming fire.
What is self-regard?  Allow me to define it like this: it is the wood, hay or straw of a preoccupation with what we want at the expense of what we’re needed for.
So the question is, just what is it that we’re needed for?
Let me personalize it like this:
1) First it seems that in some mysterious sense God has created in himself a unique place for you to walk with him in intimate friendship. God, who by definition needs nothing, has chosen to need you. He delights in your friendship as a particle in his eternal joy. To respond his need is to love him.
2) Secondly, based on that friendship and flowing forth from it, he has chosen to need you to help spread his love to everyone he places in your life. To respond to that need is to be faithful to him.
So let’s say that to build with gold, silver, and costly stones is to do what you do completely alive and responsive to God’s need of you. In the words of proverbs, it is to bind love and faithfulness around your neck and write them on the tablet of your heart.   (Proverbs 3:3 NIV)

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