October 11, 2018
The bathroom remodeling has been going pretty steadily, if slowly. Until today. Last night Matt called to tell me about a design change they wanted. It required removing the drywall and cement board on one wall, pulling out the tub, building a half wall, and repositioning the shower head and tub spout. They weren’t being picky; it was the right thing to do, something I should have thought of earlier in the project. It took me the best part of the day to undo what was there and do it right. At the end of the day, I was almost back to where I was yesterday.
It would have been frustrating except for the life lesson it afforded me. We often are quite anxious to move ahead in our lives and in our walk with God. We imagine that all we need to do is get started, but in our human limitation, we don’t see the design flaw in our plans. We’ve thought it through, worked carefully, but before we can move ahead, stuff needs to be removed, replaced, and relocated. We thought God took care of that once for all in the beginning when we repented and trusted in Christ, and we were conscientious and diligent in our efforts, only to have God call us up and order a design change.
We can get frustrated over it, or we can listen to what God has in mind and recognize that it’s a better idea than what we had. We may not like backtracking and undoing things, but sometimes it’s impossible to move ahead till we move backward. Tonight I’m grateful for the day’s life lesson, and for the times I’ve actually listened to God’s design change ideas. They are always better than mine.
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