WE ARE ABANDONED BUILDINGS

There’s something about abandoned buildings that pulls on my heart. I’m not sure if it’s because I see literally hundreds of homes or abandoned warehouses here in Philly that would make great apartments, condos, stores or churches but I love seeing the potential in them. I live in the Frankford section of Philly (moving soon which is why I’m putting the business out there) and there are tons of abandoned apartments right by and under the EL. Often times I think, I wish I was an investor so I could do 1 or 2 things: gut out these homes and rehab them or break them down and build them right back up.

So as I’m walking to get Chinese food from Chinatown I notice these huge warehouses. They’re hideous on the outside, broken windows, discolored, completely unattractive and abandoned on the inside—empty if you will. Do you see where this is going? So I got to thinking as I often do and I thought hmmm, aren’t we as mankind just a bunch of abandoned buildings that need 1 or 2 things to happen to us? We need to either be gutted out and rehabbed on the inside or broken down completely and built right back up. Slapping some nice paint on the outside won’t do the trick. We need a change from the inside out. We need an investor who is fully vested in us and is willing to give these projects of ours some TLC. We’re abandoned as well and once we are adopted in then we have the Holy Spirit who takes residence in our home.

I can probably go on and on about this but I want to leave some food for thought.

Have you let Him invest fully into your life or are you abandoned wondering why you feel empty?