“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 any 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 on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Earlier today, I scheduled a contractor to do a little renovation. I have a long list of tweaks, improvements, and reconstruction to get done to our aging house, all logically classified by need, urgency, and cost.
Meanwhile, life keeps throwing inexplicable curve balls to everyone in our family. It’s hard to keep up with the swings and sways, let alone make a color-coded Excel spreadsheet to fix them. In my more self-obsessed moments, I whine “why me?” … before reminding myself “why not me?”
God’s always working, tweaking, improving things — and sometimes tearing down some old room I thought was just fine. Instead of questioning each move He makes, I should instead reflect on Mr. Lewis’s quote. Life is always under construction.
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