"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 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 going to be made into a decent little cottage: But he is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
C.S Lewis
I know I shouldn't be surprised by how rough it can be to follow Christ. Yet, it doesn't hit me till those tough times. Sometimes I follow God as if its a cakewalk. Other times I think, "what have i gotten myself into." Thinking of the cost of following Christ in particular. Then come those times where I don't know GOd is doing, he begins knocking me down, and it hurts. I feel like im in that kind of stage right now. I can't really understand everything thats going on. All I can do is trust him, have patience, trying to live a life by faith. Its discouraging at times....yet humbling.
TO finish off the quote above...."If we let him....He will make the filthiest and feeblest of us into a dazzling and radiating immortal creature pulsating through with such energy, joy, wisdom, and love as we cannot imagine. The process will be long, and at parts painful, but that is what we are in for. Nothing less."
Sometimes...its just hard to believe that God can do that in me.... But i'll try to let Him.
Work it out....
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you used this one before hahah. but regardless c.s lewis's allegories are always solid.
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