The last couple of weeks i've been slowly but surely helping my girlfriend move into her new house ready for our next year of uni....
The room we were doing needed pretty much a complete overhaul as it was in such a state, so whilst she was at work bringing in the bacon, a couple of mates and I set to work at painting, repairing, polyfilling and carpeting the room in a day- bit like changing rooms, but student style.
And behold, a week later and the room still isn't finished...every time i'm over to see her a little bit extra gets done - at least thats the plan! If anyone is interested, the last thing to be finalised were the curtains and curtain rail. Not an easy job....but they are finished and the room, if i say so myself, is looking down-right dapper!
Couple more lamps to go up few more frilly girly bits and pieces, but all things considered, between us we have done a good job.
Now.......there is in fact a point to me mentioning something like this (which if we are all honest with each other here, is a somewhat uninteresting read!)....
My girlfriend and I were at the pub having a chillax a couple of days ago, and we decided the there was some sort of analogy kicking about in the decorating procedure....so here goes!....
We figured that decorating (especially student changing rooms style) is a very manic operation. Its pretty stressful sometimes, theres lots of things to be done, lots of mess to be made...and then cleared up...lots of flat pack ikea wardrobes to be assembled (well, one actually, but you get my drift). Plenty of moving things around so you can access enough plug sockets for hair straighteners and things. Drilling, hammering, painting, hanging (curtains), hoovering...and then a bit more moving.
So now, the crux of the matter....when we finished the last thing we did, we both sat down took a deep breath and a big sigh of i think would mostly be diagnosed as relief. those curtain rails were hard work after all....
When we looked back at this in the pub, we thought that the decorating the room could very well represent life in general.
How often do we rush round in life, trying desperately to get things done and dusted. Finalise things, make things look nice and pretty....and how often to we simply just sit down and relax in the presence of God? (thats what the chair represents you see!)
James 4:7-8 says:
"Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you"
......let God be in control,
...the devil has absolutely no power over us,
...God wants us to bask in his glory
3 astounding truths that I/we should really be considering more in our everyday lives, and maybe, just maybe, decorating jobs could physically be finished in one day instead of one week!
...the devil has absolutely no power over us,
...God wants us to bask in his glory
3 astounding truths that I/we should really be considering more in our everyday lives, and maybe, just maybe, decorating jobs could physically be finished in one day instead of one week!
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