TREASURE FROM BROKENNESS

2 Corinthians 4:7 NLT We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.

You may already know all about it, but I learned this week about KINTSUGI which is the Japanese art of taking a broken piece of pottery and instead of hiding the brokenness it uses gold, platinum or silver to restore it and make it stronger and more valuable than it was before.😊

Isn’t that what God does with each one of us when we’ve experienced brokenness in our lives in one way or another? He doesn’t leave us all broken but He takes us to His work bench and over time He lovingly puts us back together to be used for His glory, to be a blessing to others.😊

Our God is the great Restorer, the great Healer. He heals the broken hearted, He restores our souls, and by His wounds we are healed. In the end, because it’s God who is at work in us to be and do all He has planned, our cracks aren’t filled in with gold but made whole by the precious blood of Jesus.

Paul tells us we’re like clay jars that hold the treasure of God Himself inside us and even when we’ve been broken God still shines out of us.😊

Ephesians 2:10 NLT For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

So be encouraged today to know our brokenness, or our imperfections don’t stop God from loving us or using use. All through scripture it shows God uses very imperfect people to do the most amazing things, and as far as God is concerned, we are His masterpiece and He’s not finished with us yet! 

Thank You Lord, Your healing power is doing Your work of restoration and rebuilding our lives making us whole and putting us back together so we’re stronger and more valuable than we were before. In Jesus name. Amen.

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A SIMPLE EASY THING

2 Kings 3:17-18 AMP For thus says the Lord, ‘You will not see wind or rain, yet that valley will be filled with water, so you and your cattle and your other animals may drink. This is but a simple thing in the sight of the Lord; He will also hand over the Moabites to you.

18 NIV This is an easy thing in the eyes of the Lord;….

I wonder how often we come to ask the Lord for something when we pray but think it’s too big a thing for God to do, and we just can’t see how it could happen, so we don’t take the limits off?

In this chapter we discover King Jehoshaphat in alliance with two other kings with their three combined armies having no water for the animals or themselves which was a life threatening situation, quite apart from the battle they were going out to fight against the King of Moab!

Jehoshophat was wise though because he inquired of the Lord and as a result God did over and above all he could have asked or thought. God told them to dig ditches all over the valley and He would fill them with water. Then almost in passing, He says, “I’ll deliver your enemy into your hands as well!”

It almost seems like it’s no big deal! It’s as though He says I’ll do far more than you ask, and by the way I’ll throw in this tremendous blessing while I’m at it! Then He drops in this thought, “And this is a simple thing, an easy thing in the eyes of the Lord.” Don’t you just love the way God thinks and works?😊

What comes across in this account is that we can never ask too big. Whatever it is, it’s simple for Him. Nothing fazes God and the bigger the request the more He loves our faith in Him, and whatever we ask He wants to go above and beyond, and then throw in something astounding as an extra. You can almost see Him smiling as He turns to His angels and tells them what He has planned for us in the coming days.

So as we go into this new week be hugely encouraged to ask big, and then ask even bigger than that, and see what the Lord will do.😊 In Jesus name. Amen.

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