Blessings from Destruction

Our neighbour's shed catching on fire has definitely given me a lot to think about.

Though our shed was relatively safe from the blaze, the siding on the back of our house melted.  Our insurance company is covering the cost of the damage.  Since Dom is good at working with his hands we are actually able to save on costs and use part of the money for new windows.  This is good news since we are conducting the world's slowest house-flip and needed to get the windows done anyways (we probably would have thought of them a few years down the road).

So through the destruction of our house we are able to reconstruct parts of it that needed to be replaced anyways.  I think this gives us a good lesson as Christians.  Blessings can come out of destruction.  Sometimes destruction is necessary to move forward with our walk with the Lord.  We don't like it, but God has this amazing ability to use things we don't like (or think should be a negative aspect in our lives) for His glory and for our own good. 

This photo was taken on our deck. 

No matter how big the blaze seems to be, God is always in control. We need to learn to trust Him through the destruction.

2 Corinthians 4:16a,17-18 (ESV)
"So we do not lose heart...for this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen.  For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."