This weekend’s pearl of wisdom comes from a book called Mere Christianity by the British literary scholar C. S. Lewis.
“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 any 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 being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
Lewis reminds us that God is not in the business of renovating our lives, but of transforming our lives. This is his priority in every situation: not what is convenient for you, and simply adds value to your life, but what is transformative for you. This insight will help you engage with what God requires of you in any given situation.
Commit yourself to God’s process of transformation today.
Read Romans 12:1-2.
