When we moved into our dream home on the river we knew that it needed work. We were fully prepared to Work hard at Making her beautiful.
We live among the process every day. Some days the kitchen cupboards had no doors and others the deck had no railing. Often We have had to turn our rec room into a project Room and walk around ladders and drop cloths in almost EVERY room of our home.
We knew that we needed new gutters on our roof. When the project began we hired experts because parts of our roof are 40 ft off the ground. We knew there was some rotten wood on the eaves and that a family of squirrels had found their way in. What we were NOT prepared for was that the FOUNDATION of the roof had rotted away. Water and rot had slowly made it’s way in where no one could see. As the layers of foam insulation came off it exposed the rotting sub layer, when that was removed it exposed the rotting joists. It was not until the layers were removed that the rot underneath was exposed. And it was not until the rotting joists were replaced by new strong wood that the sheeting could be replaced and it was not until that was replaced that the new foam could go on and it was not until that was done that the rubber sheeting could go up and THEN the gutters can go up so that the rain can be directed in a way as to not destroy the foundation of our home.
When God moves into our hearts he is prepared to rebuild the foundation, not add a coat of paint.
HE loves us to much to do that!
we want him to add a coat of paint and a granite countertop to our lives and call it a day…. But HE sees what we do not And letting him have total access to our lives is the only way that HE can do the work that only he can do. It is so often way more painful than we thought it would be, But he is To kind to leave us where we are! He loves us enough to get into the rot and replace it with his strength and love.