149: house analogies

not to be confused with tree analogies

Hello!

Here are two different house analogies for you this Tuesday eve. Be blessed!

Build your life on the Rock and your house, oh single woman, will stand firm. You have a house (for real), and if you are building it on the Lord Jesus Christ, even if you're out there hammering on it by yourself, He will make it stand firm--guaranteed that it's not going to be taken away with the next hurricane or tsunami. That's not girl power but God power, for your security and His glory.

"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.” (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, quoted by my former Writing for Children teacher at BJU on her Facebook page :))