Recently, God has been allowing me to go through the fire. This is really the first time I've ever had to go through all of this. It seems like the past 11 years of ministry have been pretty easy for me. Yes, I've had some hard times, but now it seems like someone is literally ripping my skin off my body.
At first I couldn't really understand what was going on, but then it hit me.
If you've ever seen Extreme Makeover: Home Edition then you know what happens. Some family has been living in a dump of a house. The floor is falling in, there's mold every where. There are roaches all over the floor. It is not livable at all, and yet there is usually a larger than normal family living there. By the end of the show, the bus moves out of the way to reveal a beautiful home that anyone would love to live in.
Our lives are much the same way in the eyes of God. Our floor is falling in, we have mold in our hearts, and our lives are not suitable for God to dwell there. We are not in a position for promotion because there is too much unhealthy junk in our lives. God has a greater plan for our lives than we realize, but in order to accomplish that plan we have to get a makeover.
The hard part is that God doesn't simply add nicer parts to our existing life. Just like that old, junky home God will allow us to be stripped of everything that we are. Many times He will even break up our foundation. This can be very painful. But we are now in a position to be built back up with a new foundation, new walls, new protections, and a new look. We can't see it, but God can. He knows that in order for us to step into our promotion, we have more character and more resistance.
You may feel like the demolition team has entered your life and is destroying everything, but just remember God is getting ready to recreate you into something that He will use for His glory.
