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A businessman owned a warehouse which had sat empty for months and needed repairs. Vandals had damaged the doors, smashed the windows, and trash was everywhere inside the building.

The businessman showed a prospective buyer the property and took great pains to say that he would replace the broken windows, bring in a crew to correct any structural damage and clean out all the garbage.

"Forget about the repairs," the buyer said. "When I buy this place, I'm going to build something completely different, something entirely new. I don't want the building. I just want the site!"

Compared with the renovation that God has in mind, our efforts to improve our own lives are as trivial as sweeping out a warehouse slated for the wrecking ball. When you become a Christian, the "old is passed away; the new has come!" (2 Corinthians 5:17).

You can't keep your "old building" when you come to Jesus. He doesn't want the building--but he does want the site. The site is the real you--the you that was created in the image of God. And the old building--with its dark rooms and bad habits--is demolished. You become a new creation in Christ Jesus.

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Andrew Lopez, RN
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