My backyard flows into Village of Oakfield property that has housed a water tower for nearly one hundred years. This past Monday it was demolished, starting at 5:30 a.m. A better word to describe this process is to say that rusty old tower was deconstructed piece by piece.  Welders, perched on the top of the tower, handling blow torches, cut apart steel pieces, section by section.  A humungous crane lowered them to the ground, at which point they were cut into smaller pieces and hauled away.  I could see the fire from the torches burning holes and cutting open seams.  I could see the steel swinging from the derrick’s hook, as it was hoisted to the ground.  By noon, the tower’s water cistern on the very top had been cut away. By 2 p.m. the tower’s “legs”, were “sawed off.”  At 4 p.m. the ground was just green grass, as all pieces having been hauled away.  The tower came down in less than one day.

This deconstruction moved my soul, because I have been meditating on the verse from Isaiah 43: 18:  “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing.  Now it springs up.”  I am at a stage in my life where I yearn for the old to be forgotten, and the new to emerge.  I saw what happened to that leaky, rusty, old tower. God can do that in my life.

 The Great I-Am has permission to do the same to my spirit: to cut away the old, using fire if necessary.  He is hauling away the debris, separating me from it as far as the east is from the west. My Heavenly Father wants to do that for me — to clear away the old and to make room for the new.  Have at it, Lord!

Where have you seen the Lord removing the old and replacing it with the new?