"I am crucified with Christ; and it is
no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me." (Galatians 2:20)
Imagine 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 know 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 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 -- throwing
out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making
courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage:
but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself!
-- C.S. Lewis in Counting the Cost
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