Broken Things

​I see broken stuff every day.  Recently someone donated a recliner.  Well, in a former life it was a recliner.  When I examined the chair I found that most of boards that held the chair together had been either broke or had come unglued and unfastened.  The chair literally flopped around and sitting in the chair was a scary proposition.

​I took the chair apart as much as I dared and began to refasten the chair together from the inside out.  Every nail, every support gave the chair more and more stability.  When it was all said and done, the chair will find its way into someone’s home to be enjoyed.  It took some time and effort, but when finished, a usable chair.

​There are broken people all around us.  They may appear to be okay from the outside but on the inside, they are broken, separated, and not stable.  Satan has them in his grasp and he is doing his best to slowly destroy them.  He lies to them, telling them that they are hopeless broken and lost and that there is no hope.  

​I must confess when I first looked at the recliner I thought there was no hope, that the best solution was simply to send the chair to the warehouse to be scrapped.  But it would have been a shame to scrap something that was fixable.  

​I see broken people every day and sometimes I need to remind myself that they can be fixed from the inside out by the power of Jesus. They are not hopeless broken and lost.   The power of the love of God can change their life.    If I am willing to let God use me, I can be part of his plan to restore broken and hopeless people.