Today
was spent helping our cousins move into their new home in
Maricopa. This is a new community that has just started building
up in the last couple years. As mentioned, we live in the boonies
of the East Valley of Arizona; however, Maricopa just happens to be
located on the exact opposite end of the East Valley boonies! It
is nearly an hour, to the minute, to reach their home. So
many people we know are moving right now. The real estate market
in Arizona is booming and the price of housing is rising more quickly
than the equity in the homes can be gained - which would seem nearly
impossible as the equity gained in a new home is an average of 40
to 50k in the first six months! As
we were painting the walls of their new home, we were talking about the
stenciling they were also planning to do. I so love
stenciling. I think it is something about the delicate lines that
take to life on what was once an inexpressive canvas. A
home increasing in value so rapidly over such a short period of time
seems impossible to some...The whole thought process caused me to
reflect on our salvation. Focus on Christ and how He takes a life
that is worthless and makes it something beyond measure, something so
far out of our price range we never dared to dream of the
possibilities. And all in an instant...not six months...one
single instant... when our faith reaches up and grabs hold of
a Savior whose been longing for this moment to breath life
into a being whose days on Earth were numbered, but whose days in
Eternity have only just begun. He took His paintbrush, created an
original work of art, called us a masterpiece and wrote His name on our
heart. ...A priceless masterpiece with stencils of salvation on your heart, authored by the Lord Most High. 2 Corinthians 3:3 "You
show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry,
written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on
tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts." Ecclesiastes 3:11 "He
has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set
eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done
from beginning to end."
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