Inside KV

Kings Valley sends out a weekly e-mail to people interested. Pastor Don had asked the staff to write up brief devotion-like articles to be featured in the e-mail. This week Don used one of my pieces. Here it is for any of you out there that don't get the Inside KV e-mail.

INSIDE KV
April 5, 2007

What’s Up (brief words from Dave)

I love the television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. I think it’s one of the best shows on television. Last week’s show featured the Wilson family. Mrs. Wilson was a grandmother of 4 who had her grandchildren come live with her when things weren’t working out with their mother. The family was living in a trailer that was being held together by duct tape. Even the grandmother was forced to share a bed with one of her grandchildren. When the limousine came to pick the family up, it was as large as the home they had been living in. The Wilson family was whisked away on a vacation while the designers and contractor built them a brand new home. Seven days later, the family returned to find a beautiful, spacious new home where there was once a beat up, cramped trailer. Mrs. Wilson fell to the ground when she saw the new home. She couldn’t even bring herself to walk through the front door when it came time for the family to see their home. When she saw the rooms and everything that had been given to her, she became more and more amazed. “It’s like a dream but it’s real,” she said. I love this part of the show. I love to see the family’s faces as they see their rooms or the backyard, or the new car that is left for them in the drive way. The families are always so thankful.

The Bible tells us to take off the old self and put on the new. We have been given this new life by our Lord and Savior. Where there once was a rundown, beaten up, Old life, Jesus came in and gives us a brand new, bigger and brighter new life. Better than we had ever dreamed. Sometimes we are like the Wilson family, and we fall to our knees with gratitude for the gift we have been given, but other times we take this new life for granted, and we ask God, “why can’t we have this in our life? Or where is that in this life?” I have yet to tune into Extreme Makeover Home Edition and have one of the kids walk into their room and say, “well I don’t really like purple, I hate this room, make it better.”

I ask you to think back to the life you had before Jesus entered and think about where you would be now without him. Take a chance today to thank God for your Extreme Makeover: Life Edition.