The Extreme Makeover
My wife, Sandy, loves to design interiors. She will take a room or a whole home and make it look fabulous, useful, inviting and filled with love.
At our home we don’t watch television often. When we do it is usually a “reality” show where a home or property is being made over. Some of the makeovers are amazing and others leave you wondering “Where did they get that idea?!”.
There are seemingly endless shows available to watch these days that focus on makeovers. From homes to wardrobes to businesses or cars, it seems that if you can imagine it, there is someone who will make it over!
At one point, those things that are being “made over” were new. I teach a principle to my employees that “yesterday’s excellence becomes today’s mediocrity and tomorrow’s failure. It is called normal wear and tear or the second law of thermodynamics. This is the principle that things will stray from their original form and function unless energy from an outside force is used to maintain them.
The most touching part of the shows is the “reveal” at the end where a surprised homeowner sees their updated house or happy driver sees their well-loved vehicle revealed in its restored state.
These shows always make you believe that if something is made over it will now be perfect andyou will be forever happy with the new thing or place!
Why are we so fascinated by the makeover process?
It could be because we all love to see positive change. Or maybe it is that our curiosity is held captive by the skill and creativity involved in making the old things new; remaking something that was broken; taking something that is outdated and bringing up to today’s standards; making something that is thought of as ugly or worn out beautiful and useful again.
In my opinion, these shows reveal an innate desire in people to have an extreme, personal makeover. We often think if we could just lose 20 pounds, get a new wardrobe or change our hair or environment then somehow our lives would be complete.
Deep in each of us is the desire and longing to be different than we are, to be whole or to be healed. We desire for every broken relationship to be restored.
The greatest opportunity for an extreme personal makeover is the one that Jesus offers each of
us. 2nd Corinthians 5:17,18 in The Passion Translation reads:
“Now, if anyone is enfolded into Christ, he has become an entirely new person. All that is related to the old order has vanished. Behold, everything is fresh and new. And God has made all things new and reconciled us to himself.”
The greatest desire God has is to do an extreme makeover on each of us. He wants to makeover those relationships; He wants us to recognize that we have been fearfully and wonderfully made.
He wants to heal our relationships and opur emotions. Mostly He wants to reconcile us to Him. God completes this desire through His son, Jesus.
Ephesians 2:4-6 TPT tells us:
“But God still loved us with such great love. He is so rich in compassion and mercy. Even when we were dead and doomed in our many sins, he united us into the very life of Christ and saved us by his wonderful grace! He raised us up with Christ the exalted One, and we ascended with him into the glorious perfection and authority of the heavenly realm, for we are now co-seated as one with Christ!”
The makeover we are offered takes us from dead in our transgressions before Jesus comes into our hearts to delivered, healed, set free and filled with joy after we accept Him and all He has done for us through His death and resurrection!
Timeless extreme makeovers can only be completed by God.
Ephesians 2:10 TPT
“We have become his poetry, a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of you, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it!” As you receive communion today, I pray that you receive the extreme and complete makeover offered through Jesus!