House

Someone wants to walk through my house and judge it tonight. If they deem it worthy, they may offer me thousands of dollars for it. If not, it will be clean for the residents. I think God is doing some amazing things right now. Maybe one of those things is selling the house. It would be cool. I think that this reflects our faith in many ways.

Sometimes, this is my picture of God: I clean the mess up as best I can and smile politely when God walks through my home. Unfortunately, he knows about the hole behind the picture, where the cat peed and all the spots that I spilled paint. He is not interested in buying the home. He knows how messed up it is.

Fortunately, that is not how God sees things. He walks through my mess and tells me that he wants to help me sort through it. He walks into the basement and smiles as he describes what a great room this is going to be when he is done working on it. He teaches me how to drywall and even shows up early the next morning to help me. Sometimes he even tells me to go teach someone else how to drywall. He pays the mortgage in full with his Son's blood. He fills the rooms with his Spirit. He takes up residence.

Obviously, this idea of my life being a home is stolen from My Heart, Christ's Home. But as I was thinking about how good I needed the house to look tonight, I really needed to remind myself that all I need is to trust that He will sell this house when He wants. It is also a great reminder that I need to submit to his work in me.