From an old friend, in one of his greatest surprises both in content and timing.... Thanks Andy.
I thought you might like this quote from C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity, one of my favorite books: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.
ps (from Brad). The picture is the future site of Restoring Lives West, a ministry of Lynhurst Baptist Church for homeless teens, just south of Washington St. in Indianapolis. Even though it seemed beautiful on the outside, it needed a complete re-do on the interior. We actually stripped this old house down to the studs on the inside, it seemed such a fitting picture of what C.S. Lewis describes about you and me. Your will LORD.
