God Will Buy Your House No Matter How Ugly It Is

The pristine environment the Lord placed man and woman in was meant to be that way forever.

But something happened. “What happened?” What happened to get us in the mess that the world is still in?

Well, man fail short. Man sinned. Man gave in, or should I say woman gave in to sin (1 Timothy 2:14). And the man caved in to the woman.

Nevertheless, the eternal bliss God had designed for Adam and Eve and their progenitors turn into a time-filled-life of sorrow and pain.

Things turned ugly. And the pristine was no longer pristine. The former paradise as Adam and Eve had known it had become just that, “former.”

From a well kept garden to one of thorns and thistles. Adam and Eve’s former abode lush and filled with every desire, they could come to desire, was no longer to be.

The charge in the garden paradise was to be fruitful, multiple, replenish, keep and refrain from eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 1:28, 2:15, 17). This charge guaranteed stability. This charge guaranteed eternal bliss. Keeping this charge meant that man’s home would forever be in a paradise, where, that which is ugly could not reside.

Ugly, in an insidious way, nonetheless made its way into the perfectly planned community God had designed for man.

Being all-wise and ever-ready, God quickly move forward with His buy-back-plan. It was a plan instituted before the foundation of the earth. You see, the actions of Adam, Eve, and the serpent, came as no surprise to God.

Things had gotten ugly; but God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit were prepared. They boldly declared: “We buy ugly houses.”

No matter the condition of the house whether there are missing shingles, leaky roof, cracking foundation, mole and mildew, termite infestation, it does not matter. God buys ugly houses.

The stain of sin on all of our lives has left us, from Adam to those yet unborn, looking like ugly dilapidated buildings in the eyes of God. That’s the bad news.

The good news, however, is that all of us, all of mankind, red and yellow, black and white have been bought with a price (1 Corinthians 6:20).

No one has to remain ugly, dilapidated, and weather-beaten. No one, in other words, has to remain in the clutches of sin. God specializes in renovation and restoration (Psalm 23:3).

The renovation and restoration process takes place when you confess that God is in the business of buying ugly houses.

Romans 10:9 put it this way: “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”

With that confession, spoken from your lips and believed in your heart, God begins the transformation process that takes your run-down-sin-stained-life and transforms it into the image of His Son.

The lying, the evil thought, the corrupt living, the unwholesome talk, the bitterness, rage, and anger which brought your life, into disrepair are all renovated and transform by God.

Jesus Christ made all of this possible when He who knew no sin became sin for us; “that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

There is nothing uglier in the eyes of God than sin. And sadly, we all have sinned and come short. Again, the good news is God can take that which is ugly and make it pleasing and acceptable in His sight (Isaiah 1:18).

Even in this bad housing market, God still buys ugly houses.