Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

Now restoration is the careful skill of bring back something to its original glory. Can you imagine the patience, skill and fortitude required to restore an ancient piece of artwork? Or, on the other hand, the skill required to remove the rust and debris from a piece of precious material without damaging the material itself. This is the sort of delicacy required to bring restoration to an inanimate object. Imagine the patience, skill, endurance, attention to detail and resilience require when restoring the human spirit?

For restoration to occur in us we must go through the pain that removing the outer superficial layer will incur. This can be as quick or take as long as is necessary to effect complete deliverance, healing and then restoration. We are delicate beings and when particularly a loved one in our early stages of development has crushed our spirits, it is like a lorry driving over a tender rose petal. To bring restoration to the rose, the restorer must be gentle, pay great attention to detail and be prepared to take as long as is necessary. Today, if you have been crushed, or have been damaged in any way, allow the precious Holy Spirit to gently caress, heal and start the restoration process in you. The end is in sight, keep holding on! Read Psalm 51.