{"id":3397,"date":"2012-07-03T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2012-07-03T00:27:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T07:27:41","slug":"god-rebuilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/god-rebuilding\/","title":{"rendered":"God Rebuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3398\" title=\"shutterstock_71222623\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/shutterstock_71222623-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/shutterstock_71222623-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/shutterstock_71222623-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/shutterstock_71222623-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/shutterstock_71222623-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/shutterstock_71222623-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/shutterstock_71222623-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/shutterstock_71222623.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I love this quote from C. S. Lewis&#8217;s <em>Mere Christianity: <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cImagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of &#8211; throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>God knows what He&#8217;s doing; we don&#8217;t. He is good and His plan is good. We can trust Him, no matter what He brings into our lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Photo from Shutterstock)<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-container rtsocial-container-align-left rtsocial-icon\"><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-icon \"> <div class=\"rtsocial-fb-icon-button\"><a title=\"Share: God Rebuilding\" class=\"rtsocial-fb-icon-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.doorposts.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F07%2F03%2Fgod-rebuilding%2F\" target= \"_blank\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-icon\"> <div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-icon-button\"><a title=\"Tweet: God Rebuilding\" class=\"rtsocial-twitter-icon-link\" href= \"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=God%20Rebuilding&via=@doorposts&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.doorposts.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F07%2F03%2Fgod-rebuilding%2F\" target= \"_blank\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-icon\"> <div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-icon-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-icon-link\" href= \"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/god-rebuilding\/&media=https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/rtsocial\/images\/default-pinterest.png&description=God Rebuilding\" target= \"_blank\" title=\"Pin: God Rebuilding\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"perma-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/god-rebuilding\/\" title=\"God Rebuilding\"><\/a><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"rts_id\" class=\"rts_id\" value=\"3397\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"rts_media_nonce\" name=\"rts_media_nonce\" value=\"9b18c083b4\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wp_http_referer\" value=\"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\" \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this quote from C. S. Lewis&#8217;s Mere Christianity: \u201cImagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. 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