The Old Barn



Once a stranger came by My house the other day with an offer that set me to thinking. He wanted to buy my  old barn that sits out by the highway. I thought and told him right off that he was crazy. He was a city type, you could tell by his clothes, his car, his hands, and the way he talked. He said he was driving by and saw that beautiful barn sitting out in the tall grass and wanted to know if it was for sale. I told him he had a funny idea of beauty.


Sure, it was a handsome building in its day. But then, there's been a lot of winters pass with their snow and ice and howling wind. The summer sun's beat down on that old barn till all the paint's gone, and the wood has turned silver gray. Now the old building leans a good deal, looking kind of tired. Yet, that fellow called it beautiful. Sometimes we don't look back and see how beautiful we are walked through all the experiences.
 
That started me to think. I walked out to the field and just stood there, gazing at that old barn. The stranger said he planned to use the lumber to line the walls of his den in a new country home he's building down the road. He said you couldn't get paint that beautiful. Only years of standing in the weather, bearing the storms and scorching sun, only that can produce beautiful barn wood.
 
It came to me then. We're a lot like that, you and I. Only it's on the inside that the beauty grows with us. Sure we turn silver gray too... and lean a bit more than we did when we were young and full of sap. But the Good Lord knows what He's doing.We often forget that He is preparing us for something beautiful. And as the years pass He's busy using the hard wealth of our lives, the dry spells and the stormy seasons, to do a job of beautifying our souls that nothing else can produce. And to think how often folks holler because they want life easy.
 
They took the old barn down today and hauled it away to beautify a rich man's house. And I reckon someday you and I'll be hauled off to Heaven to take on whatever chores the Good Lord has for us on the Great Sky Ranch
 
And I suspect we'll be more beautiful then for the seasons we've been through here... and just maybe even add a bit of beauty to our Father's house.Also remeber the builder who built the barn built it to last all seasons.Often only some barn last all season which is built to all perfection.We are similarly created by God in His own image So God created man in his own image*


*in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.Genesis 1;27

and are designed to last all season because he has already been through*.

*Jesus, this great High Priest with ready access to God—let's not let it slip through our fingers. We don't have a priest who is out of touch with our reality. He's been through weakness and testing, experienced it all—all but the sin hebrew 4 :14-15


All our expereinces looks to us bruised and battered like the old barn but it becomes a beautiful garments for others to discover, put on those beautiful garments and let the World see that the Gospel begets purity and peace and it enlarges the heart and opens the hand for the good of all human kind and show that it conquers selfishness and transforms the soul from hate to love.


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