"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)
Often times when we come to the Lord.. ( ask him to come live in our heart ) we expect this BaDABOOM..miraculous transformation to immediately take place. In some this may be true... but for most... transformation is a steady process that continues to grow and progress over time...The minute we say yes to God he opens the rusty door of our heart and enters into a house full of past hurts...brokenness....fears...sin's from our past our present and insulating it for our future....Immediately he begins to clean the cob webs from the ceiling , the secrets weve swept under the carpet , he opens the curtains of our heart and for the first time exspose's light onto the dark corners of our heart ...
During the cleaning process we have to take into account all the dirt that will be exsposed...You may begin to feel a mixture of random feelings and emotions...In any case... hold fast...theirs guna be alot of old dirt being stirred up on the inside of you so God can sweep that stuff clean....But overtime you will begin to feel that broken down structure begin to be strengthened and renewed...You'll begin to feel a softening in your heart towards the things of God, a love and compassion in your heart for people you may have never felt before...He takes the sin's of your past all your wrongs and makes them right, he takes your ashes, the rubble from your past and gives you something beautiful in return....
And later down the road of life when you find yourself hitting those crazzy road blocks...Firey Pits...or Arrows being shot from the left and right from the enemy ..
God is a God of Love and Mercy, his hearts desire is to have a close one on one intimate Love relationship with you and I and how beautiful is it that the God of the Universe would go so far as to make our heart his home to be so close to us....
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