The Warehouse

A London businessman decided to sell a warehouse he no longer needed. The building had been empty for months and needed repairs. Vandals had damaged the doors, smashed the windows and strewn trash around the interior.
As the owner showed a prospective buyer the property, he took pains to say that he would replace the broken windows, bring in a crew to correct any structural damage and clean out the garbage.
"Forget about the repairs," the buyer said. "When I buy this place, I'm going to build something completely different. I don't want the building; I want the site!"
When we turn our lives over to God, he will not simply repair a few of our faults. When we become God's, the old life is over. He makes all things new. He simply asks for the site - and the permission to build.

 - Ian L. Wilson