The Great Architect

In my heart You have a home

When we consider building a new house, we have all these ideas of how we want it to look. The material to be used. The architecture, the finishing touches. The paint on the walls, the flooring. If we want wood or tiles or carpets. We know how big the main bedroom should be, to accommodate the furniture and to cater better for the activities zakhona. The bathroom, its location, convenience, colour scheme and all. We plan the kitchen, making good allowance for movement. Catering for ezalapho izinto. We know the necessary appliance we will need and where they will be, for easy reach in time of use. We know the ins and outs of the house before its even built. Already we see it in its completion stage. And we wait patiently as it is being built. With the builders, referring to the plan every time to make sure that all is built according to the plan. Constantly reporting back to the Architect to make sure that all is well. And to sign off some things as surety that konke kulungile.

Now if it happens that your house is not built 100% to your specs. You have the option to either discard it and have another one built. Or you take it... Go back to the drawing board. Contact an interior designer and you do sorta damage control. Gruesome isn't it? Lotsa work and money to be spent. Makes one angry I can imagine... Yeah... I know... Nonetheless, you do it cos you love your house. Its yours, your dream your creation... So you will redecorate it until it meets your deepest desire. Until ithi ncoooo kulandawo. And when you look at it, walk into it you are happiest to call it a home. Your home....

Psalm 139: 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

God planned our existence before the beginning of time. He knew where our curves will be. How our legs would be shaped. How big our eyes will be (like mineJ). He knew how our smiles will be. He knew how we'd breath, talk, and walk. He knew how warm and caring our heart will be and enabled our arms and hands for the function of holding and comforting. He gave us soft and gentle voices that we may soothe others with words of comfort. Some of us were given authorative voices so that they may be able to rebuke when needed. Each and every part of our bodies and being was planned in order to enable us to do the task that we were created for.

God could already see what we would become, provided that His plan was executed to the letter. He had a specific plan for each and every talent, trait, and physical features that He put in and on us. If we would look at our bodies now, this moment and ask Him why He made them the way He did. We’d be surprised at how we have been abusing them in doing something that was not in His plan (just a thought).

Now, with God being the Architect and the Master mind behind these complex creatures ezingabantu. He laid out the plan. But had to hire and entrust builders to execute this plan of His by bringing this dream of His into being and execute it. Make it come to life and live to its purpose. The builders are our parents. They try their best in following the plan, sometimes they omit to consult the Architect which results in mistakes and diversion from the initial plan. Sometimes, they consult but misunderstand the instruction. But in the end, the product does not come out exactly the way that the Architect has meant for it to be. Now, with God not being much happy with the end product He has two choices… either to discard this creation or do damage control. Depending off course on how valuable it is to Him. Because we are valuable and because He knows what His plan is for us.

Jeremiah 29:11

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Therefore He will do all that it takes to mould and shape up to the vessels that will carry this plan He has to completion. He will do all that He can do (and us willing to yield to) to make sure that we live to that plan. That we experience this plan that He has for us.

So He sends us another Builder (Jesus). They go back to the original plan. Check what has gone wrong and see how it can be fixed or redone and who to employ in order to do the work.  The Builder employs His own Interior Designer (Holy Spirit), whom He knows that He has worked with before and produced great results. They break what needs to be broken, melt what needs to be melted in order to get the final product that God intended.

Jeremiah 18

1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.

It does not matter how much damage has been done to the creation. Sometimes it is so damaged that it loses its shape so much that it just cannot be recognised. One may not even be able to make out what it was or was supposed to be. But even then, the Architect still sees the hope; He can even see what else He can now add to this masterpiece. It takes time and effort. It needs energy and patience. It comes at a cost. But the Architect knows what He wants His creation to be, and would bear all costs, including sacrificing His only Son.

In short… kinda:-)… We have been planned and purposed for greater things. However, because of how we grew up and the choices that we have made along the way, we have deviated from that plan. We have been nailed, banged, chiseled and painted in the wrong places with the wrong tools. We have been scratched, scrapped and cracked due to negligence and carelessness. But the Potter, the Builder, the Interior Designer are able to rebuild that which has lost shape. They are able to put worth back to that which has become worthless. This time, a better product is guaranteed to be born. You see, the Holy Spirit redecorates us, rearranging our lives, our being, our emotions. We become new creations. All the damage that was done is no longer visible, cannot even be traced.

2 Corinthians 5: 17 Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold the fresh and new has come!

May the Holy Spirit of God redecorate my heart and make it a worthy and well manned place for Him to dwell. Because in my heart, is where His home is...

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