Rebuilding on the Wreckage

Sometimes life blows a giant hole in our faith. Like a bomb dropped on us. Sometimes one bomb after another.
Sometimes you look back and you see two years have gone by. With a path of destruction in their wake. Sometimes you still have to push aside rubble. There are still fires to put out. But time works wonders and makes the wonders of God clear. Sometimes things have to be destroyed to be rebuilt bigger, stronger, and better.

A quote from Incendiary by Chris Cleaves, "I am a woman build on the wreckage of myself."

God covers us with His hand, He protects us as His glory passes by. He loves us in the midst of that which we cannot understand. And when its over...we look and see His back. We see that He was there. That time of destruction did not take Him by surprise as it did us. That unexpected demolition of all that had been normal in our lives...He didn't miss it. As the dust settles and the fires die down, we turn and see His back.

He works through the sin that we have commited, the sins commited against us, and the sins of those around us. He breaks us down and reforms us. And He promises us restoration. Below is Joel 2:25-27. He will restore the years that the locust has eaten. We have no choice but to start building on the wreckage. With a sword in one hand and a trowel to build in the other. "Grace recreates what violence has destroyed." -(Pastor Justin Holcomb, Mars Hill Church).

He has good plans for us. Plans for hope and future and His people shall never be put to shame.