My Grand Adventure

They're adding an elevator to one of our buildings here. It's an awful sound. Drilling, hammering, shaving metal. Yuck. It's worse than nails on a chalk board. But the outcome will be good. We can accommodate more handicapped students, we can carry large boxes upstairs without killing ourselves or our backs, we can be lazy and not climb stairs. It sounds awful, but it will be good in the end.

I walked passed today while they were working. They were shaving a metal frame to make it fit inside the space. It made me cringe it sounded so horrible. I thought, "You know, that sounds like what my life feels like lately." And I as I thought more about that, I realized the more it's true. It is painful. It makes me cringe. Yet, without it it wouldn't fit. God has many plans for my life. I don't understand many of them - if any of them. And it will, in the end be good. He is shaving off things in my life. It hurts. He is hammering in his word and his principles. It's painful. He is drilling out some pain and hard spots that have been in my heart for a while. It's overwhelming, sometimes.

But I know that it is all so I can fit into his plans. It's not easy, but it's worth it. It doesn't feel or sound pretty, but in the end...O in the end! How wonderful it will be to say that God took all of the things that limited me and he shaped me and he molded me and now I fit perfectly into his design.

Perhaps you understand what I'm saying. As you read this and you feel overwhelmed or outdated. Maybe you feel overwhelmed or used. Know that the building process hurts, but the end product is worth far more than we actually have to pay.