Chapter 4: The Abandoned House Edition

WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS ON YOUR OWN. YOU WILL DIE. So today i have been so excited about blogging and the opportunity to share with you something really cool i heard about a month ago. I would like to confess that sometimes while writing i think to myself... what can i say to make people think i am cool... but i would like to pause and just say i am not telling you any of this to make me look cool or better or anything crazy like that. I come to you random people as a servant wanting somebody to read and crave a relationship with this God who has completely changed my life and turned it upside down. I do mean that. How could anything in this life change someone's lifestyle and why of thinking? Well i cannot really offer an answer thats of this world and so very common to us. I would like to suggest that God, the same very God that made you exactly the way He wanted you, can do just that. Transform the way you think, look at people, treat people, treat yourself, how you act, and most of all transform who we think we are. About a month ago i believe, I heard a guy named Rod Mays( i have no clue if that is spelled right and it could be Rob) speak and one really cool think he talked about was.... When God comes into our lives it is like... God walking into an old abandoned house or temple and He is constantly repairing and making the house beautiful. Random people... we are broken.. just as broken as a house that nobody cares about. A house that has been deserted and left for the vines to take over. Use your imagination if you have one... Sin(the very thing that separates everyone of us from God. We have no way to God bc of our sin. Bear with me...there are some of you who know we do.) is what has caused us to be in this state of abandonment... and that very sin is those consuming vines that take control of everything. So now you are seeing a house. A house left broken down in ruin with vines all over it. Stick with me Randomneers. haha. Dont ask me what that means. Lets act like this house can actually be alive. So now we have a living house... What is nathan on?? just coffee i promise.. but seriously now.. we have this abandoned house. Can it fix it self? Can someone who knows nothing but sin fix their sin? Think about... Can you? Can i? We sure try to, or at least i have. But i failed every time i tried and i am sure some random person out there knows exactly what i am talking about. Jesus is the only way to our Father in heaven. He is the way to God. We do have a way. But in no way is that way ourselves.... but we sure want it to be. Imagine... A man dressed in white, beautiful beyond compare, perfect in every single way, perfect in love, perfect in grace... walking through the woods and seeing an old shabby house overtaken by those vines. He walks up opens the door. (At that moment He was nailed to the cross.) He took on this old broken house and wanted to restore it. Wanted to make it beautiful. Wanted it to be HIS. Wanted to see it shine because of what HE DID and is going to do. He could have easily built a beautiful mansion but instead he choose to take upon himself the brokenness of that old house. That house is you! That house is me! Jesus came and was nailed to the cross for our brokenness. Our sin. Our imperfections. Thats why He came. He came so we could be restored just like that house so Our father in heaven may be glorified! Sooo.... like... this Jesus dude comes in our lives and our lives just become awesome and perfect.... haha yeah i wish! No... we are seen as perfect because we are seen as Jesus himself standing before our father! Now for the physical part because of course we are forced to live in this broken world. No other option sorry guys. When Jesus comes in the door of our lives he fixes, heals, restores, and equips us step by step. Just like when that man walks in that old house. He has to fix and restore it room by room. Leak by leak. Broken board by broken board. Tearing those vines down that we have let consume our lives. Its a constant transformation that only Jesus can do! and when we loose our selfish ways and desires Jesus then can make us beautiful! A beautiful restored house. NO longer without an owner. No longer without a father... But now being a child of the most marvelous King of all Kings and seen completely Beautiful. How awesome is that? I think it is so exciting! I hope you do too. I really want to talk more about the vines next chapter because for some reason we like to hang on to them. I am off to RUF... wish i could write so much more.. Random fact... I have a tattoo. Random i know.. Come back for more!