MADE NEW!

Me-Maw Thoughts
Number 385
July 17, 2018///

Have you noticed that most Doctors offices have their televisions on the channel that has all the remodeling and house hunting shows on it.

We seem to always be in the waiting rooms when Fixer-Upper is on. I don’t know if you have ever seen this show, but Chip and Jo remodel houses that clients buy with the remodel plan in place. (that is my understanding)

Last week as we were waiting, and my eyes were on the television screen, Chip was banging down walls and cabinets with this enormous hammer type tool. As the house took on a new and amazing look I begin to think how like our life that is.

When we receive Jesus Christ as our Personal Savior He begins a work in us that will, if we allow it, transform us into something beautiful.

Sometimes to get to that beauty we must let Him tear out walls and destroy ugly. If we hang on to the old, there is not room for the new!!

Sometimes just redecorating with paint and new furniture is not enough, we must rip out old walls, plumbing, appliances, etc. and bring in the new.

We do that with old houses by bringing in someone who knows what they are doing, how to do it, and can get it done!

If I tried to tear out and remodel a house it would be a disaster because I would have no idea what I was doing.

In the same way, if we try to fix our lives it is a disaster because we have no idea how to do it. We try, we strive, we work at it, but we are clueless!

Father God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are the experts and they can not just fix us from the inside out, but they can make us new creations from the inside out. If we allow it, they can make real change in us, not just a cover up of paint, etc.

The power of the Lord God Almighty can rip out walls of past hurts, renew your mind from wrong thinking and make all things new. That power will build you into a sanctuary of beauty for the Lord Jesus Christ.

Psalm 127:1A (KJV)
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it:

We can try to make our lives right and to fix what is wrong, but the Word of God tells us that our labor is in vain, meaning it just is not going to work.

Now on the television program Fixer-Upper they complete the renovation in the time frame of the show, but all who watch know that it really took months for the final product.

In the same way as we allow Jesus Christ to begin a new work in us, it is a process and will continue as we allow it. For instance, we may think we have allowed all the walls and junk to be broken and removed and then discover a hidden room of stuff we have pushed down inside and tried to ignore. We may have attitudes that need adjusting and words that need correcting.

It is a process and we will must understand that we must allow the process to continue.

Philippians 1:6 (KJV)
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

We are in process until Jesus comes back or calls us home, but we need to remember the initial work of receiving Jesus as Savior makes us a new creation, we just need some refining!

2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
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Father God, thank you that you continue to work in me to correct my attitudes and words and deeds. I praise your name because I am not a finished work but am in process. I am the clay and you are the potter. Mold me into your image so that the world may see Jesus through me. Amen

God Bless each of you. Have a Blessed and Abundant week!
Love, MeMaw