~ Old Ruins~

Nehemiah 2:17-18 -
     "But now I told them, "you know full and well the tragedy of our city; it lies in ruins and its gates are burned. Let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem and rid ourselves of this disgrace!" Then I told them about the desire God had put into my heart, and of my conversation with the king, and the plan which he had agreed."
 
     As I was working on this verse for school, I was thinking how God rebuilds us. Before we are in a relationship with Christ, we are just like old ruins. Sitting waiting to be rebuilt, but in a way I feel we don't notice were waiting to be rebuilt. We don't notice somethings wrong, or somethings missing. We don't realize we are just a pile of stuff without Christ. When we accept Christ into our life, He starts scraping away the rubble, which is all our old baggage and mistakes that we hold on to. He gets rid of all the stuff we don't need, and starts to build from the bottom up. As we mature in our walk with God, He's always rebuilding. It takes a long time to build a city from the bottom up, right? well that's what He's doing. Once He scraps all the debris away, He has to start building the foundation, and work His way up. Our life is like a city. It takes a long time, but man is it worth it! I have seen people change after they have Christ in their life. They are a completely new person. My best friend changed in just a short bit; but he made that decision to change himself, and they way he looks at life; and the way he changed is amazing! It has made me realize how much God can do in one person. I watch how my friend grows in God and it makes me so happy to have seen him change! You can accept Christ in your life, and do nothing with it, forget about it all. Or as I say "put it on the shelf to collect dust". Yeah, you might change a little bit, but if you don't try to make your life better, your going to spiral back down... and possibly even get worse, I've seen too.

     Give it ALL to God. Your whole life. Watch him change you! It's so amazing how God works. It really is; and the best part is he takes you just as you are. Every past mistake, every piece of baggage. He will start healing you from all that. Let God take control, let him take all the rubble you have, and start building you back up, into a beautiful city.