Renovations

As many of you know, Carlos and I (mostly Carlos) worked on renovating our house for about a year. At first we couldn't live in it because we (Carlos) completely converted the garage into a master bedroom and  gutted the kitchen and started from scratch. Many of you also know we have now been living in the house since late August. Yay! It has been wonderful. I call it the "perfect" house. I know it isn't really perfect, but for me it meets all my needs. I am sure some of you could relate to the fact that towards the end of the renovations, not everything got done because we were focused on just being able to move in.  Dealing with the big stuff to pass inspection and then planning on dealing with the small stuff once we are in. Now that we have been living in the house though, the small stuff tends to be overlooked on a day to day basis. We met the large goal  - moving in the house - now we are comfortable. So the kids bathroom still doesn't have a shower curtain, the window curtain is held up by thumb tacks, the light fixtures in the old part of the house don't have glass domes covering the bulbs, the trim around the kitchen window isn't filled in, the tub needs caulking, the outside of the windows need cleaning,.... I could go on, but my point is not to make you aware of all the unfinished business in my house or to make my husband feel like I am picking on him.
I could pick up a drill and do something about this list too. However I think I have identified three reasons that "keep" me (us) from doing so:
1. I don't feel like I am capable of doing some of the needed work.
2. Time (kids, work, cooking, cleaning, managing.... etc etc)
3. I am comfortable

I think anyone would understand and appreciate the first two - either you drill the hole correctly in the wall for a shower curtain or you make swiss cheese of your walls - so better to let a more experienced person handle it right? And when it comes to life, I think everyone would also understand the time issue - who has time to worry about caulk with everything else going on in life?
The third one is the one I really need to be worried about.
Here is where I am going with this:
My point is not home renovations but where I am spiritually in my life.
I am comfortable.
I have met "a goal" and I am living in my ways and I can't remember the last time I picked up a tool with an intentional effort to challenge myself and change something to better myself. Sure I go to church. Sure I read the bible. Sure I fellowship with other believers. Sure I pray. But I know I have lost sight of the fact that I am a work in progress with a goal - to be more like Christ everyday.
Not once every couple of years.
Not every couple of months.
DAILY.

"And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." 2 Corinthians 3:18

Notice something in there?
How about the word ever-increasing?
How am I spiritually different from last year?
Or the year before? I am not sure I can answer that question.
In a word - I am lukewarm.

"So, because you are lukewarm - neither hot nor cold - I am about to spit you out of my mouth." Revelation 3:16

I know when Carlos and I have a house party - all of a sudden completing that "to do" list becomes a lot more important to us. We scramble around in the week leading up to it to make the house more "finished." However, when it comes to your spiritual life, you don't might not get the the heads up that the party is coming. My life could be over tomorrow and I  don't even know it.
I can keep using my three excuses of my capabilities, my time, and my laziness (comfort) and stay the same in my status quo or I can be transformed into the likeness of Christ. 
I will end this post with a quote I heard on the radio the other night -

"Would you rather the pain of discipline or the pain of regret?"

Thanks for reading.