Quote of the Day
"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself." - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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I was just thinking about this the other day. The last few weeks I have been watching a house undergo renovation and I thought how similar this renovation is to spiritual life. The thought that occured to me was that just like the house which had to to torn appart slowly before the rebuilding could begin so do our lives have to be torn apart slowly, painfully, and arduously before God can start rebuilding us into the people He wants us to be. Even after the tearing and demolition is complete it doesn't mean that the renovation is anywhere near finished. I know that I expect a desired change in me to occure overnight, but it never happens that way. It takes a long time of hard and painful work to get to the point where rebuilding can occure and then the rebuilding takes just as long and is just as painful. In the end the product is worth it but it is definitly no weekend project.
We are the house.
God is the builder.
Are we willing to let him in the door to strip away, remodel, and build?
We are the clay.
God is the potter.
Are we willing to become pliable and let him mold us in to what he wants us to be?
We are the book.
God is the author.
Are we willing to let him write on the pages of our lives?
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