If you ‘ve been around Maple Grove over the last 4 weeks, you’ve seen that we are working on the Fellowship Hall, replacing rotten wood. We’ve torn out the old press wood, plywood and rotted wood, and replaced it with new wood that is stronger, better prepared and able to handle the rigors of our church family. As I thought about the physical transformation that is slowly taking place in the Fellowship Hall, it reminds me of the change that God brings to us when we accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. As Paul writes:
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
2 Corinthians 5:17. God’s Word tells us the things we will get rid of because they are rotten and gives us the instructions to replace those old things with Godly things. So, let me leave you with these verses from Colossian 3:8-9; 12-17:
“But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds…….Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”
Want to see and old floor changed to a new floor? Come visit us at Maple Grove.
More importantly, want to see an old life changed by God? Put you faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. You can see this change at Maple Grove too, but not in the building materials. You can see it in the lives of those whom God has saved and transformed, and now holds forever secure in His hands.
Come and see.
Bro. Parks