In the English countryside of Buckinghamshire, a three-story “mini-castle” built in the 1700s, a type of building known as an architectural folly, teetered, threatening to crumble.
A fire nearly 200 years ago had consumed the interior, and the stone walls were little more than suggestions of what once existed.
In 2017, on the television show Grand Designs, a young architect and his wife took on the challenge of bringing the old folly back to life as a family home.
The miniature castle would once again be the fortress, the refuge it was originally intended to be.
Psalm 9:9 tells us:
“The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.”
If your relationship with the Lord is teetering, perhaps even threatening to crumble, now is the time to start repairs. Your connection to God can be made new again.
It took that young architect more time and money than he expected, but the results were magnificent. The damage from the years of neglect contrasted with the updated design, but the home that resulted was more magnificent than the original.
Your life will reflect the damage you have struggled to overcome. However, with God as your champion, you will be more beautiful in the end than you started out to be.
Reach for God. He is already reaching for you.
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