There’s
a program I like to watch on TV about competing teams of interior designers who
are given several hundred dollars for the challenge of choosing a few flea
market items to refurbish and re-sell at the same flea market for a profit. The
team that sells their re-designs for the highest earnings receives all the
money at the show’s end.
The
designers choose objects that are broken, worn, damaged, old, ugly and possibly
considered useless. They possess a passion for creative imagination and an eye
for seeing something that is not yet there, turning discarded stuff into
something people want. They restore value.
Just
before Jesus began his ministry, scripture tells us, he was in the synagogue
reading aloud this portion of Isaiah 61:
"And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue
on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. And He was handed the book of the
prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it
was written:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
“Then,” Luke 4:16-21
says, “He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat
down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. And He
began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
Jesus came
to this planet wrapped in an earth suit – flesh and blood- to restore beauty
and value to a broken world; to take us back where we have always belonged, into
an intimate relationship with God our Father.
As Master
Designer, God lovingly sorts through the scrap heap of our lives and sees us
for who we can be rather than what we are. He sets our life on a path of repair
and redemption the minute we yield everything we have and are to Him.
Feeling
ugly, tattered, damaged, and useless? Though you may see yourself as such, your
value has never once diminished inside God’s plan. He proved His obsession for
your restoration by paying for it with the life of His Son.
Are there
pieces and parts of you that are shattered, incomplete or in disrepair? Broken
things are God’s specialty.
Surrender
all your brokenness to God and allow Him a divine re-design. The process may be
inconvenient and even painful at times, but endure it with gladness.
When God
revalues a broken thing the results are priceless and beyond astounding,
because that is exactly what you are in His eyes!
Psalm 147:3 “He heals
the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”
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