Broken Buildings

There is a great Christian song by the band Seventh Day Slumber with the above title. It has spoken to me richly over the past few months. The crux of the message is this line of the chorus: "what did you see in me?, you found beauty in these broken buildings!"

I love that! I think about not only the ghetto of broken down buildings that represented my life before I met Jesus, but about the dilapidated state that a find my life in at times even now, but yet He looks at the broken buildings and sees the wonderful mansion he is preparing. It is simply marvelous to think that anyone can have vision like His. We cannot. I must challenge myself to look at "the projects" of my life and figure out what wonderful house he is going to construct in the neighborhood that is my life. But not only mine but others. We love to look at the messy rundown areas of others lives and wipe our brow and say "Thank God I don't live there!", but in reality we should be reaching out our hands and saying, "how can I help you fix your broken building?" WHAT IF we all worked on building mansions instead of throwing another rock through an already broken window?