Give God the Pieces

by | Sep 8, 2024 | Brokenness, Repentance, Salvation

I wrapped it carefully in the clothes I had in my carry-on bag. My thought was that it would be safer if I kept it with me as we traveled to San Diego to visit with my daughter and her family. I had even rehearsed what I would say to my daughter when I presented it to her. I would say this is from Grandma and me. It was a piece of the beautiful blue glass that my mom had collected for years and I had inherited it when she passed away three years ago. It was precious to her, therefore, was precious to me. I didn’t mind giving it to my daughters because what is a gift if it doesn’t cost you anything? I want them all to have a piece of my mom and of me. As soon as they brought in my bags, I went to get the beautiful gift I had brought across the country. I unzipped the gym bag I had used for my carry-on luggage and reached for my treasure. I took hold of the handle of the blue basket and only the handle came out. Looking further, my hope was I could glue it together, but with no such luck, it broke the thing into many small pieces that could never be repaired. As I looked down at the rubble of blue, my heart sank, and my eyes filled with tears. The priceless gift was in a million pieces, it seemed.

Isn’t this just like us? We plan our life; we wrap it in the things of the world and feel that if it is in our care and control, nothing can hurt us. “Why do we need God, we think? If our life is in our care, it will be safe.”

As life takes its toll on our lives, we become more and more broken. Sometimes our broken life still shines on the world, but piece by piece it dulls. Lifestyles and addictions take our health. Sin takes our peace of mind and also takes our good conscience. Poor decisions can take our wealth or even our marriages. As we look at the broken pieces of our life that once were beautiful and shiny and find it unrecognizable. Hoping there is a glue that can put it back together again, but the pieces remind us of the futility without God. We think maybe a new relationship, or a new job, will do it. Nothing seems to work, there are just too many pieces.

If we find our lives broken and in pieces, there is only one place to go to be restored, and that is to Jesus. He can pull our lives together as no one or nothing else can do. All He asks is that we come to Him with the broken pieces, confess our sins and repent. Then with the Holy Spirit we will come out of the darkness of the broken pieces to shine for the world to see.

“The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” (Psalms 34:18 ESV)

“Come to me, all who labor and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” (Mathew 11:28 ESV)

Jeanie Nihiser

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