Jesus was a carpenter, let Him build your house. 
2 Corinthians 11:3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.. 

A garden hose is a great analogy of us in our relationship with Christ. Water will be our analogy for the life of Christ because His life is called "living water" and the "water of life" in the Bible.

This world is under the illusion of control. It is like the world is living inside of a master magician’s show. The reason it seems this way, to those awakened by the Spirit of God, is because it is true.

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

I paraphrased the first three chapters of Ephesians and made them personal as to what we have and are in Christ. This is only three chapters. Imagine if we did this to all of Paul’s writings. I think it would change our identity if we meditated on who God says we are in Him.

We celebrate Christmas as the birth of Jesus our savior as we quote passage about Christ bringing peace on earth. And rightly we should because it is the most amazing event in the history of man up to that point. But I can’t celebrate Christmas without anticipating Easter. The reason we can celebrate and announce peace on earth and sing joy to the world is not just because of the birth of Jesus. I propose it is because Jesus came to wage war.

If God allowed us to determine His love by our circumstances then His love would be subject to satan’s attacks and our bad choices, which are the most likely sources of our negative circumstances.

How many times have you thought, “Life isn’t fair”? You don’t have to look very far to find injustice in this world. Because life isn’t fair, we have a hard time believing that there could be a good God reigning over His creation.