This earthly tent has been cut, sewn, patched up, and
repaired. I often wish I could exchange it for a newer one! But
God’s ways are not my ways. He takes the weak things and
makes them strong. In my limitations, God’s plan and power
are limitless.
I’m learning to get my eyes off the tent and onto how to
enlarge it. God is able to do wonderful things in and through
my life. Instead of being overwhelmed by the imperfections
of my body, I have the privilege and opportunity of watching
God work in ways beyond my understanding!
It is true that this temporary shell was not designed to last
forever. “The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised
imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is
sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural
body, it is raised a spiritual body” (1 Corinthians 15:42–44).
I think the Lord would have me long for my heavenly home.
And in the meantime, He will keep using this patched-up tent!
Thank You, Lord, for this earthly tent. Forgive me for complaining
about it. I am grateful that it is not the one I will have for eternity.
You will give me a perfect body then.
I praise You for holding this earthly body in Your hands and guiding
all that touches it. You delight in me, not my body. You look at the
heart. It is awesome for me to consider that I am the apple of Your
eye—that I am special to You. Thank You for loving me.
Enlarge the place of my tent, and stretch my curtains wide. Use
this experience for Your glory in ways that I cannot even conceive. I
praise You for the new things You are beginning to do. As they spring
up, help me to perceive them. You are making a way in the desert
and streams in the wasteland. I lay my imperfections and fears at
Your feet and ask You to work despite them. You are able to do
exceedingly abundantly beyond all I ask or imagine according to
Your power that is at work within me.