Decoration

Today we finished decorating the outside of the house. We used donated decorations so they weren't exactly as beautiful as the classic decorations that my mom always used. Even being miss-matched and some not even totally functioning as they should, I looked at the house and thought about what those make-shift decorations represented.

We've had a lot of people in and out of the house since I arrived, and time and time again we hear stories about what this place used to represent to the neighborhood. It turns out that before us, the residents of this house were drug dealers. Guys that visit us remember vividly what the house used to look like inside and express just how beautiful it is now comparatively.

I'm glad for the miss-matched decorations in the yard. I bet the former residents didn't do anything for Christmas. I'm sure, overall, that their occupation of this house made the neighborhood much uglier and more desperate during the holidays.

Did the lights and nativity change how much our house once polluted the neighborhood? Nope. What has happened on the outside of the house is just the reflection of the changes that have taken place on the inside of the house. What really happened is this building got a new heart. It was redeemed. It was made new.

I'm grateful for the change. I'm grateful that the corruption living inside the house didn't destroy it completely. I'm honored to be able to partially represent this house's redemption. And I'm glad that this precious little house can be used to show people that things really can change.



2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

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