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God’s Renovation
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by Tia Wheelus
ecently, my sister and her husband started renovating
Paul alludes to the fact that we cannot know and understand
their kitchen. I was staying in their guest room,
the mysteries of God in its fullness. When we reach Heaven,
along with all the dust that had seeped in from the
we will. We will not only see Jesus face to face, but we will
walls being knocked down. When I looked around the
know why every detail of our lives did or did not work
unorganized room, I spotted drills and building materials
out. We will know why God allowed or did not allow
lined up along the walls and scattered all around. While
certain situations to happen. At the same time, we will be so
I was watching this construction go on, the Holy Spirit
enamored by His glory and who He is, that we will fall on
allowed me to see a spiritual perspective that I would like to
our faces in praise to the One who deserves it the most.
share with you. Many things in our lives need renovating. It could be a sin that you haven’t overcome, a relationship that is broken, or even a decision that you are not sure how to make. If you know Jesus personally, you know that the word sanctification implies that we continue to grow more and more like Christ throughout our lifetime. Jesus begins renovating our hearts and our lives the moment we trust in Him. From that moment, He continues to knock down walls within us that hinder us from living with and for Him. The Lord says, “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 36:26). Just like anything under construction, it may take longer for supplies and appliances to arrive than you originally anticipated. It is the same with God. Everything that is taken
What is God renovating in your life right now? What are you holding onto that He wants you to let go of? Who has He told you to forgive or to make amends with? Trust that His goodness in your life is not only because
away from us during the renovation of our lives will be
of Him and His glory, but for your good too. “Behold! I
replaced with something better. The “something better” may
tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be
be completely different than what your original idea of what
changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
“the best” looks like. We may not see it now, but on His
trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised
time, He will rebuild, restore, and replace anything that He
imperishable, and we shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52).
In 1 Corinthians, Paul speaks about spiritual gifts and how they ought to function within a church. In Chapter 13,
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About The Author
chooses to remove from our lives. Tia Wheelus found her love for writing at a very early age. She is a victim advocate at the Sexual Assault Center of NWGA and works as the director of marketing for a missions organization named Global Year.
