Saturday, January 14, 2012

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

2 comments:

Ginger said...

beautiful reminder.

Steve Martin said...

Yes! Thanks for the reminder that this pride-soaked world (as beautiful as it is) will someday be brought to an end.

But that a new, much better world will be ushered in by the One who loves us so much that He was willing to give His life for us.