Yesterday at church, the service was focused on restoration. Worship, the Lifetalk, and the interviews were all focused on how God is in the business of restoration, not demolition. One of the interviews was with a man named Billy who I have talked with several times before through his involvement with the Fish House - a community of addicts and recovering addicts seeking God's truth for their lives. Billy said something I found incredibly profound and relevant for my life - he talked about how he tries to let God take the crowbar to his life and pry away those pieces that are not what God intended for him. I love thinking of my life in the same way...
God, please chip away at those aspects of my life that are not submitted to or honoring you. Shape me and mold me into the man you've intended me to be. Help me not add new stuff to the sculpture of my life that will later need to be chipped away. Amen.
Something else about what Billy shared really struck me and I've been processing it ever since. It wasn't what he said, but how he said it. As Billy was talking about how God has been chipping away at the junk in his life, he wasn't talking about it with an overly agressive sense of urgency. Obviously God has been working in Billy and he desires God to continue the work in him, but Billy seems very much at peace to allow the process of complete restoration to take place over time. Sometimes I think we (I) are in such a hurry for things to happen that we don't adequately allow the necessary process to occur. I praise God for the restoration work He is doing in Billy, me, and all of us who are desiring to be transformed into Christ-likeness. I also pray that each of us will be open to the restoration process God desires us to go though.
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