Seriously Under Construction

You get annoyed with me

Because I am so unlike you

But I’m seriously under construction

I am having a change of view.

I have not always been like this

You should have seen me before,

Before this construction had begun

I was exceptionally poor.

So that what you are seeing now

Represents a great improvement

But still I am under serious construction

Though I have some lived-in tenants.

I know you are taken aback

And you feel that I am making sport

But as my construction work continues

I am just asking for your support.

If you cannot join in and help me

You can keep your criticisms to yourself,

I am seriously under construction

And it’s all for my spiritual health.

I am still experiencing relapses

Perhaps this is very unlike you,

Remember I’m seriously under construction

And sometimes I become unglued.

This may not be your experience

You might be of the rare and perfect type,

You are no longer under construction

So you don’t have to struggle and fight.

Thus it would be difficult to understand

All this rubble on my site

But I am seriously under construction

I have not yet attained to your type.

I am seriously under construction

Please take that as my status right now

And for every little success I achieve

My renewed heart will shout WOW!!!

  

My construction was started from within

Most constructions start from without,

My inner man is the Spirit’s target

It is he that is turning me about.

You see I am a work in progress

And that is why I carry this sign

Stating “Seriously Under Construction”

During the time I am being redesigned.

If you have already reached your limit

Hip, hip, hurrah to you

But somehow I feel that at your vantage point

You should be having a better view.

Yet you ignore my construction sign

As though you have never passed there,

Maybe you too are under construction

Serious construction too, I fear.

My builders are constantly at work

The Father, the Son and the Spirit,

Serious construction is going on here

Unless you are here to help, please exit.

Be careful when you come on site

Watch out for the loose dirt and rubble,

I am seriously under construction

And I could do without your trouble.

Thank you Father for sending your Son

Thank you Jesus for coming,

Thank you Holy Spirit for living in me

And for this building you are constructing.

Stewart Russell © March 2019