C. S. Lewis indicated there is often pain in change when he wrote of
God’s expectations for His children: “Imagine yourself as a living
house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can
understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping
the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew those jobs needed doing and
so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house
about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense.
What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a
different house from the one you thought of—throwing out a new wing
here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making
courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little
cottage: but He is building a palace”
-Marvin J. Ashton
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