I am struggling with the photo thing with no patience because of lack of energy. However part of my picture showed up, well enough to share with you what I was hoping to. This rubble used to be a liquor store on L street. Many of times in the past I have sat at a light staring at the store having mini conversations with God about how I knew this store was bringing destruction in people’s lives. My heart knows about addiction and destruction. I mean most the times I have gone past that building I was leaving Living Well. Those people in that liquor store were no different than me, looking for some way to numb the pain. Except I knew about Jesus and I have him in my heart. So I was hoping for that liquor store to become something else, a place that brought hope instead of destruction. Then the craziest thing happened… the liquor store was shut down, no longer in business. THEN my jaw dropped when I saw this, it was no longer just shut down, but tore down! CRUSHED! Wow. Could it be that I knew the deeper plans of God, or that He listened to me all those nights while sitting at that red light across from this what used to be a liquor store? Maybe, but I also know this picture represents my heart, my life. Though you crush, slay me, still I will trust in you is what Job said in the bible.
Many walls in my heart have been torn down, crushed, broken so God could rebuild me how He originally created me to be. This is still a process. I know that He began a good work in me and He will finish it. Sometimes it hurts to be a construction project. Sometimes I feel like I am forever going to be like a pile of rubble. But the truth is I am restored. I am restored. And so is this old liquor store which I believe is going to be used for God’s glory! Amen. Thanks for reading!
