“That isn’t what you need,” I heard from the bold visitor standing on my front porch. His words pierced my spirit like arrows. This good friend of mine was now acting like a guest—outside my door. “I know the source of your restlessness. It’s in your heart. That’s where need you a renovation. Let me redesign and simplify your heart. I’ll walk with you through your home and remind you again of what’s really important. When I’m finished, this will be not a house, but a beautiful home where my presence will abide with you daily.”

His gentle voice rang with such authority, that I immediately abandoned my remaining plans and invited Him in. His method? Like the Psalmist recounting God’s goodness throughout the journeys of Israel, He uncovered the “stories” of my heart, pointing out the lessons He had taught me, and reminding me of His track record of faithfulness. Gently but firmly, this friend nudged me to remember and renew—always emphasizing the underlying thread of His intentions: to make my heart like His—a place where we both could feel at home daily.

The results of that renovation left me eager to share, just like the Samaritan woman at the well: “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did.”

I did not write this book in a few weeks or a few months. For me, it is the story of a simple, life-long quest to know the Father, and to make my heart a true home for the presence of Jesus. This book is not about me. If all you learn after you turn the last page is what my home and heart look like, in a physical sense, then I have failed. My desire is that you would come to see Jesus.

Perhaps your heart, too, longs for change: renewed joy, simple attitudes, lasting peace. But you’re unskilled in this area of redecorating. What if you invited the Master Designer to renovate your heart also? What if He showed you, simply, but effectively how to make your heart a beautiful refuge—a warm, inviting place where love dwells and peace reigns? He has no fee—except the price of obedience.

May I invite you to join me as we take that journey together? Would you step through the door of my heart and home and meet the One who will also “tell you all you have ever done?”

My heart is still under construction. The Master Designer is always at work redecorating, moving the furniture, and repapering the walls. As a fellow struggler, my heart’s desire for you is that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high his love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so, at last you will be filled up with God himself.” (Ephesians 3:17-19, The Living Bible).

 Listen…Could that be Him knocking at the door?

                                Rebecca

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