Thoughts: Hannah's Blog

Being in Bangalore for the past few years, Every time I go out, I notice some construction work or the other going on. Sometimes it’s some apartment, huge ones! Other times, it’s office spaces or the metros – always some construction in progress in one phase or the other. 

At times I wonder how I’m also under construction, constantly. I’m not a finished building yet. God is still at work in me. 

“He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” — Philippians 1:6

It’s comforting to know that though I’m a difficult building to work on, God doesn’t abandon me. He has a blueprint, a plan in place even before my foundation was laid. 

“For I know the plans I have for you… plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” — Jeremiah 29:11 NLT

I may not understand his plan or vision sometimes, I might wonder the why and the what – but he knows. 

He knows how he wants to fashion me and works patiently, wall by wall, room by room. He fixes the broken places, he makes all things new.

It might be painful at times. It might hurt, but he heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds

A bruised reed he will not break,
    and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. – Isaiah 42:3

I may be getting old and worn, weary with age and tired of standing for so long, but he renews me every day.

Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. – 2 Corinthians 4:16

As long as my foundation is in Christ, I don’t have to worry. No matter if the building is big or small. No matter how many rooms or floors it has. No matter if it is plain or ornamental as long as it is the way that God wants me to be, I’m fine with that. 

For I know that one day, as I stand on the other side of eternity, I will stand finished, bringing glory to the Architect of my life, for he has said:

I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise,
    your foundations with lapis lazuli.
 I will make your battlements of rubies,
    your gates of sparkling jewels,
    and all your walls of precious stones. – Isaiah 54 : 11,12

I’d like to finish this blog with the chorus of one of my favourite songs by Brandon Heath:

There is hope for me yet
Because God won’t forget
All the plans He’s made for me
I’ll have to wait and see
He’s not finished with me yet
He’s not finished with me yet.