Working on a newly-purchased house is both exciting and frustrating. While it’s fun to make your new home into a reflection of your personality and dreams, it is also challenging as much time and energy must be invested so that the previous
owner’s imprint is removed.
While on the outside a house can appear to be a solid and safe structure in which to live, the interior, upon closer inspection, can leave quite a different impression. Much, too, can be learned about a previous homeowner’s habits, his/her home repair
abilities, and also of their acceptance of a contractor’s level of workmanship. The hidden potential (or further disgust) of a residence is uncovered each time a major appliance is moved – how can someone live with decades of such accumulated filth? – or else a cobbled-together plumbing or electrical issue is revealed (usually because of a problem that only arises immediately after the sale and/or after move in) that creates sheer amazement in the minds of the new owners as they wonder how the house never burned down either in whole or in part, or kept from being flooded out.
Houses and human beings are quite similar in this respect. On the surface, we may look as if we are well put together as we go about our daily tasks well-groomed and fashionably dressed. Yet on the inside, we are sick and feel as if we are dying. Our negative emotions or hurtful intentions are swept aside and buried underneath the
pleasantries and smiling facades we put on each morning before we face the rest
of the world. We long for relief; yet are hesitant to open up for fear of rejection. We know that others would be truly appalled (or scared) if they could read our minds and see what’s really going on inside.
God knows all of the thoughts you have …
Psalm 94:11 “The Lords knows the thoughts of man; he knows that they are futile.”
… and all of the words you will speak.
Psalm 139:4 “Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.”
He knows all about you – yes, even those hidden parts - and loves you anyway.
Romans 8:38-39 “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Bring to Him all of the things that give you pain or shame, all of those things you have been hiding, and God will lovingly dismantle your ‘human’ house and remake you into something new.
2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old is gone, the new has come!”
He’s waiting for you.
(For more information about forming a relationship with the Lord, see How You Can Find Him located at the top of this page.)
owner’s imprint is removed.
While on the outside a house can appear to be a solid and safe structure in which to live, the interior, upon closer inspection, can leave quite a different impression. Much, too, can be learned about a previous homeowner’s habits, his/her home repair
abilities, and also of their acceptance of a contractor’s level of workmanship. The hidden potential (or further disgust) of a residence is uncovered each time a major appliance is moved – how can someone live with decades of such accumulated filth? – or else a cobbled-together plumbing or electrical issue is revealed (usually because of a problem that only arises immediately after the sale and/or after move in) that creates sheer amazement in the minds of the new owners as they wonder how the house never burned down either in whole or in part, or kept from being flooded out.
Houses and human beings are quite similar in this respect. On the surface, we may look as if we are well put together as we go about our daily tasks well-groomed and fashionably dressed. Yet on the inside, we are sick and feel as if we are dying. Our negative emotions or hurtful intentions are swept aside and buried underneath the
pleasantries and smiling facades we put on each morning before we face the rest
of the world. We long for relief; yet are hesitant to open up for fear of rejection. We know that others would be truly appalled (or scared) if they could read our minds and see what’s really going on inside.
God knows all of the thoughts you have …
Psalm 94:11 “The Lords knows the thoughts of man; he knows that they are futile.”
… and all of the words you will speak.
Psalm 139:4 “Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.”
He knows all about you – yes, even those hidden parts - and loves you anyway.
Romans 8:38-39 “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Bring to Him all of the things that give you pain or shame, all of those things you have been hiding, and God will lovingly dismantle your ‘human’ house and remake you into something new.
2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old is gone, the new has come!”
He’s waiting for you.
(For more information about forming a relationship with the Lord, see How You Can Find Him located at the top of this page.)
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