Cleaning out the Old to make room for New!
Have you ever wanted to just make over a room in your house, or just do something different to change it up a bit?
“Hey let’s put down hardwood floors” I pleaded with my husband. For years I begged, “Let’s get rid of the carpet, it will help the whole family breathe better!” Well finally a few weeks ago, we went and purchased flooring. We ordered a huge pallet of flooring and brought it home on Saturday. Yay! I am so excited! Well, since we decided to change out the floor, of course I purchased paint for the walls, and bought paint for a few other projects that I want to do to coordinate with the walls and flooring! I’ve got just one more stop at my local home decor store to purchase draperies and a few other little accessories to bring it all together!
Well the whole idea sounded wonderful, so this blog is to remind myself that “It will be worth it after I go through all the stuff! My Living room will be beautiful once everything is finished!” Call me naïve but I had no clue what tearing up carpet would be like! I knew it would be a dirty job of course, I wasn’t totally oblivious! After all we’ve had the same carpet down for fourteen years. However, those big ol’ two pronged staples in the padding, that had to be pried up out of the plywood floor, well let’s just say “Pain in the Neck and a few other places, literally!” After crawling on all fours, cutting carpet, prying, pulling, sweeping, vacuuming, and pulling some more, let me just say, “UGH! But it will be worth it when the remodeling is complete!”
As I was thinking of all of cleaning out of the old to make room for the new, I really became inspired! Isn’t this really what life is about? I am constantly ministering to others who are really going through rough times! I always tell them “Whatever you are going through will pass! It did not come to stay!” This is not just a little quick fix thing that I tell them. No I realize depending on the circumstances that they are going through, sometimes it takes a long time for something to pass or to change! This applies to good or bad things in our lives. Life is a series of change! Change has to take place to cause us to be what God the creator created us to be!
A picture comes to mind of a beautiful butterfly! The butterfly begins its life cycle as an egg, then larva (caterpillar), pupa (cocoon) and then finally when it goes through complete metamorphosis or change the adult butterfly struggles to emerge! Wow, how beautiful that adult butterfly is! I love this picture as it holds in my opinion just a true picture of all God’s creation. We as humans are in a constant mode of change! This is why we should never judge others! God’s not through with them yet, or with you or me! That person that you may think will never amount to anything may be on their road to becoming the greatest Evangelist, President, Teacher, Mother, Nobel Peace Prize winner…they may be the ones who have the answers to cure cancers or other diseases! The point being, they are in a state of change, even though your first impressions of them may be that act like “Hellions!” They are not going to be like they are forever! The Bible says that if we are in Christ that we are being changed from faith to faith and from glory to glory!
Yes, I am cleaning out the old to make room for the new in my home, but spiritually God is constantly helping me to do the same in my life. I am going through some remodeling! I think the main thing to remember is that we need to constantly be aware of the changing process. We need to learn how to enjoy our journey and become excited about the changes especially if we are Christians! If we are Christians then we know that we have a Heavenly Father that only has our best interest at heart and is always for us. He sees the beginning from the end and everything in between! I am a firm believer in the saying that “If He takes you to it, He will take you through it!” As I stated at the beginning of this blog, “It will be worth it after I go through all of the stuff! It will be worth it after the remodeling is complete! I encourage you my friend, it will be worth it!
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