RESTORATION PROCESS

Years ago Roz and I bought old junky pieces of antique furniture we liked and refinished them. Sometimes it took a long time and great effort to repair and bring back to life a beat up piece. We did enough of them to fill our house. It is hard work and took some time.

I think our own restoration process is little different. Repentance can be very much the same kind of hard work like peeling layers of old paint off of an old chair we want to restore. Like the chair…we peel it off ourselves one layer at a time… old lies, old habits, old experiences, old mistakes, whatever. We go down to bare wood to get clean…to be ready to be completely restored. We have to go deep and to bare bones clean to refinish. But then there you have it… after much sanding, filling and fixing…fresh stain and new varnish there is a sparkling newly restored piece. That’s who we are… the repaired ones. Good as new.

“I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.” Jesus