This house represents the life of each one of us before we seek the Lord. It is a picture of a human soul in need of serious repairs and reconstruction, but where the problems are not taken seriously. Sin is a progressive disease which does more and more damage to the soul if it is not dealt with. It is a picture of a person who neglects self-examination and repentance, and increasingly justifies his lifestyle to himself. Even the idealism of youth decays as time goes on, and more and more serious character flaws show themselves. The evidence of decay is quite clear, but he does not want to investigate and learn just how bad things really are. Maybe there were half-hearted attempts to patch up the leak at times, but the owner made a poor job of it and the water came in somewhere close by. We make a few resolutions and try a bit of self-improvement, but it is completely inadequate. What is needed is something far more radical – a new roof. Before we will come to Christ, we need to see how serious the problem of sin is. It is taking us to hell and will end in the complete collapse of our lives and the irreversible loss of our souls forever. We must come to Christ for him to rebuild us, to put a new roof on the house of our lives. This can only be done by repentance and faith in his shed blood on Calvary’s cross. There he took away all our guilt. The Spirit of God must come to us and do more than make a few minor improvements; he must give us a new nature and put a new roof in place over our souls.