Brokenness

Have you ever seen the show Extreme Home Makeover? It's a tv show where a deserving family gets a totally new house built and furnished for them by an annoying guy with a megaphone while they are treated to a vacation. It's a great show and whenever we watch it at home I have to pull the old "No Daddy just has something in his eye" routine. The thing about that show is that the old house gets completely demolished down to the foundation and sometimes they tear that out too. It's gotta be hard for the family to watch; all the memories they have made in that house and now it's a pile of rubble. The truth is that the house just doesn't work for them anymore or it isn't safe. The same is true in our lives. In our walk with God, we grow and change and areas of our hearts are left unattended and we allow sin to move in and after a while we can't just throw another coat of paint on, we need a major remodel. We need to allow God to take our lives and strip it down to the foundation so He can build something better for us. That is what this life is about. Surrendering to God and letting Him break us so we can be remade.