WANTED: Construction Sites!

London businessman Lindsay Clegg told the story of a warehouse property he was selling.  The building had been empty for months and needed repairs.  Vandals had damaged the doors, smashed the windows, and strewn trash all over the place.  As he showed a prospective buyer the property, he took pains to say that he would replace the broken windows, bring in a crew to correct any structural damage, and clean out the garbage.  The buyer said, "Forget about the repairs.  When I buy this place, I'm going to build something completely different.  I don't want the building; I want the site!"

That's God's message to US!  Compared with the renovation God has in mind for our lives, our efforts to improve our own lives are as trivial as sweeping a warehouse doomed for the wrecking ball!

When we submit to God’s plan of redemption, the OLD life is over.  He makes ALL things NEW!  All He wants is the site and permission to build.  He wants us to give Him the "property" and He will do the necessary "building."  All of this is possible because of Christ. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a NEW CREATION; OLD things have passed away; behold, ALL things have become NEW" (2 Cor 5:17).

We become a NEW creation in Christ.  Are YOU in Christ, i.e., a right relationship with God through Christ?  

The Bible teaches that we "get into" Christ through our obedient faith: 
"For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized [immersed] into Christ have put on Christ" (Galatians 3:26-27). The Apostle Paul wrote to Christians saying, "Therefore we were " buried " with Him through 
" baptism "  into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of 
the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life" (Romans 6:4).  
Once in Christ - we cooperate with God in allowing Him to " build " our lives into something in which He will be glorified.

It is SIN that wrecks our lives, but God can make ALL things new – IF – we will give him our lives.

Will YOU allow the Master Builder to build on your site?

God bless you!

David A. Sargent, Minister 

Church of Christ at Creekwood 
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama  36695

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