May 13, 2012

Outside vs. Inside




House #1
asking 500 Euro/mo
3 bedroom / 1 bath
Nice Back Yard
No Dining room :(






House #2
asking 800 Euro/mo
6 bedroom / 2 bath / Garage
Covered Patio
Small Yard :(



House #3
790 Euro/mo Solid
3 bedroom / 2 bath / guest apartment
Nice big yard / fruit trees and garden
Comes with Free car that runs

Owner's belongings stay :(
Out of town :(



As we look at houses, we've noticed that the outsides don't match up with the inside every time. Some look great from the outside, but you walk in and unexpectedly see a mess of everything. Things broken, "junk" everywhere, infested with spiderwebs and such. And even more than the surface stuff, it needs major re-consruction.

Some have matching inside and outside. My mom once said that you can almost tell how clean someone cleans/keeps their house on the inside just by looking at their yard.

And yet there are others still that don't look so good on the outside, but you walk in and find something totally unexpected. They are beautiful and radiating on the inside.

Be challenged on a deeper level with me, to examine your life as you compare it to a house. Not just painting the outside of your life and making it look nice, but to deep clean your heart room by room. Clear out the "junk" and replace it with Christ. 


I want people to get to know me deeply and find what lives at the very core of my life, Christ. And if I want them to be drawn to Christ in me, I better need to let go and let God deal with my "junk, spiderwebs, and broken pieces." Only then can He truly Shine brightly out of me.

"The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7