Time for some reconstruction?

Sometimes we just want someone to make us feel good - to agree with us, to pat us on the back, to buy us a sweet drink or justify our dissatisfaction with life. Feeling good is nice, but striving to feel good can be like painting over rust...sooner or later the rust comes through the paint.

But if we scrape the rust away and repair the structure, giving it new life, we can strengthen and protect it from the onslaught of intense weather. Then the structure is much more able to stand strong over the long haul and accomplish what it was created for.

Be the renewed structure! Take the time to cleanse the old way of thinking, feeling and operating and renew your mind to be Christlike! Don't settle for covering the rust with a feel good solution; a latte, a new gadget, venting on your spouse, etc., etc. etc... Get rid of the hurts, emotional pain of the past, unforgiveness, hard heartedness, irritability..and the list goes on!

Be transformed through the Word and receive the mind of Christ. Willingly release those things instead of hanging on to them as though you have a right to feel the way you do! Refuse to conform to the way the world handles life and be transformed to handling life in God's way.

"Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude], And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God's image, [Godlike] in true righteousness and holiness." (Eph 4:22-24, AMP)