Pastor's Corner

for Sunday 20 September
God’s Changes in God’s Time.
If you’ve owned a house or own a house you know that maintenance is an ongoing dynamic. And, if you’ve ever lived in your house while some extensive remodeling is being done you will have experienced some inconvenience to say the least. But you grit your teeth and work around it because you know that the result will be worth the inconvenience and you also know that worthwhile changes don’t happen overnight. Perhaps you live in an old house you have wanted a newer house so that there won’t be as much to fix, but you know that ALL houses, new and old, have to be maintained.
Our lives are like that too. New Christian or old we need constant maintenance, no one gets to a place where they no longer need change, in fact ALL of us need such major remodeling that it will take the rest of our lives to finish. When it comes to our houses we know and expect to have to do changes and ongoing maintenance. Yet when we come to our lives we’re impatient with how long it takes to change; and of course, we hate the inconvenience that change brings. Here’s a verse that may help us keep our perspective, “Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” (2 Cor 4:16-18.) Remember that God is remodeling you to look like Jesus; the result will be worth the wait and the inconvenience, I promise.
Pastor Don.