1"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I am going."
Sometimes I miss little things in life because of the stresses and business that tends to consume me. Mostly do to the fact that I can't say "no" very well. However this Christmas, I got to see the truth of this passage while preparing a gift for some wonderful kids.
Mark Thomason is a great friend and keyboard player. I am blessed to know him and his family. Mark asked if I would help him transform his home office into a playroom for his girls, Erin and Emily. We started on Tuesday with removing office stuff and painting, and finished at 2am Dec 25th.
Now during the prep and painting, the running of wire in conduit, I never really had a spiritual though. We may have talked about the worship set for the coming week, but nothing deep or life altering. To tell the truth, setting up a wii, projector, screen, sound system and lights, we were more irreverent that reverent. But something happened to me on Christmas morning when the girls had opened all there presents and then went down stairs to put them away.
Emily saw the bow on the door and said "did we get a new door?'. I about fell over. Mark told her now and had the girls open the door to there new game room. It was awesome! The girls were blown away! Erin looked around with her mouth hanging open. Emily stopped in the middle of the room and turned around to face her dad and mom and yelled "This is awesome!" That's when what Jesus told us in John 14:1-4 hit me. While we are sleeping and doing life, our Jesus is working on a room in our Fathers house for us. And I know that I will walk into my room and yell "This is Awesome!"
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