Extreme Makeover

Television provides a good past-time for many of us and for some, TV is serious business. Whatever our take, there is the good, the bad and the ugly.
Some of the programs on TV can provide us with spiritual parallels.  I have seen a couple of titles such as Flip-this-house and Extreme Home Makeover.
For both of these programs there are reasons behind their actions(flip/makeover) and their final intents are decidedly different.

For each of the homes involved, assuredly there are things that the owner finds to be less than desirable.  Both methods seeks to redefine the homes involved, but there are marked differences in the approaches and what eventually gets done.

Flip this House

• The required job entails working on facades, those things that are easily and physically accessible. 
• Makes the property look beautiful while seeking to spend the least amount of money.                         ( Matthews 23:27)
• The design and architectural details remains virtually the same.
• For the pursuer of flipping the home, ''maximizing the profit'' is the goal. 
• The word house does not connote personal attachment

Extreme Home Makeover

• The property is totally demolished and structure removed, hence putting up a new structure is expensive. (Luke 14:28 -30)
• The old foundation is completely removed and a new one laid (1 Cor. 3:11, Acts 4:11)
• Usually, the new home is designed by a new architect from the ground up. (John 1:1-5, Heb 11: 8-10)
• The intention of those involved is ''giving'' to deserving people without trying to go cheap. (1 Cor 6:20)
• The choice of the word, home, connotes a personal attachment and has a personality with it.

The question is, if we are the property owner, which process would we want our property to undergo?  Our lives are estates that the Lord would love to make over, extremely!  God has made the preparation, He has counted the cost and He declares that we are well worth the efforts and the commitment it takes to make-us-over.  Wont we give our lives over to Him to do what only He can do?

Would we respond like the Psalmist?

''When thou saidst, Seek ye my face, my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek'' Psalms 27:8