We’re 5 1/2 week into this adventure and just about every day someone asks if we’re ready to be done with this and move on. Absolutely not . . . or at least not yet, and I think the motivation is that we both can visualize the end product from the beginning. It’s best to not focus too hard on the state of things on a day to day basis, but keep the eyes of your imagination on what it will be. Not what it is today but what it’s becoming. In our mind we’re already sitting in the living room, relaxing and enjoying our fake fireplace, admiring our hardwood floors and lovely kitchen with its warm glow from the newly installed recessed lighting. (We can do that you know because the kitchen/living room wall was taken out to open up the living space). That sounds just like what Property Brothers would do on HGTV.
We can
just see the half acre behind the house all greened up this spring as we relax
on the future deck. Wildflowers will be
blooming in the field, fruit trees will be budding, newly seeded grass will be
growing and filling in all the dirt patches around the house. The laughter of happy grandkids will fill the
air as they run about, climb trees, dig holes and plant things, or play hide
and seek. Soon they’ll turn the old
greenhouse into a secret clubhouse and let their imaginations rum wild. Well . . . that’s the way it looks from this
vantage point.
I
imagine that’s how God looks at us. Not
as we are today . . . but at what we are becoming. He can just picture us being glorified,
without any sickness or pain, no sorrow, no debts, no regrets . . . full of
life and brimming with joy unspeakable as we drink in His majesty and the
awesome splendor of a perfectly restored heaven and earth. I don’t picture Him on a throne that is
intimidating like in the Wizard of Oz, but I relate better to a God who sits on
His throne as if He’s chilled out on a chaise lounge drinking a lemonade,
laughing with pride as He enjoys our joy.
From
here, I’d say this house looks like “a real beaut Clark.” J
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