When I get to spend time in my woodshop, the creative side of me is released. Sometimes I look at my “scrap pile” of wood and wonder what I can make out of pieces of wood left over from other projects. Sometimes I look at my pile of rough-cut lumber and wonder what I see in those boards.
I could make pizza boards for the family from my odds and ends for Christmas presents. I did just that one Christmas and I believe they are all still in use many years later.
I dug some very old white ash boards out of this one barn. I saw an end grain chopping block in those. That became a Christmas present for some very dear friends.
For any of those boards to become useful they had to undergo some very radical changes. I am sure if the boards could talk, they would have complained the whole time about what I was doing to them.
God often does things in our lives that we would prefer never to happen. But He knows that for our lives to be transformed into something He can use, it requires painful change.
“You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.” Ephesians 4:22-24 NIV
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