Repainting

It’s been years since we moved into the house we are presently in. As the Lord blesses our family with children, and as they are growing, they love playing and drawing to the extent that they even drew many “artistic designs” on the walls. If only the walls were drawing boards it would have been much appreciated. Alas they were not! Therefore, the need to repaint the walls.

As a family project we coordinated to repaint the walls. This gave me the opportunity to clean up the whole house and learnt a very precious spiritual lesson of coming to the Lord and applying His precious blood again and again. As by influx of time, consciously or unconsciously, we get dirty by the dust of the world surrounding us. And one day, by the Lord’s mercy, we came to our sense that we have become too dirty and could not go on without the Lord’s washing and cleansing us with His blood.

This also reminds me of the need for the Lord’s anointing as the painting on the wall. The more the painting, the better the walls become and expresses the paint. The wall expresses the paint, whatever the color the paint is.

Similarly, the more we are anointed, the more we express the anointing itself. The anointing is the Lord as the Spirit. With the Lord’s anointing as the paint, we expresses the Lord. Yet the painting is practically non-existent without the object on which the painting can be practical. The paint needs the painting board to be practical and real, and the board needs the paint to be painted to express the painting, so also we need the Lord as much as He needs us to express Himself through us. The Lord will not and need not physically incarnate again as He already was incarnated, crucified, resurrected and ascended. But the Lord needs us to be expressed through us. Therefore, the need to be repainted again and again.

Later,I wrote to our house owner of the family project of painting we just did. Now, the look and feel of our house is highly uplifted, and the feeling of our family too. Our children were educated too of the need to maintain proper discipline at home and maintain the cleanliness of the house. 

Praise the Lord for this simple yet wonderful experience of the Lord through simple “repainting!” O how we need to be repainted again and again with the Spirit as the anointing. 

Lord, repaint me again and again with Yourself.