This is one of the gifts I received Christmas from a sweet friend. Below is her story behind the gift. I pray you are as blessed by her words as I am.
By Annette Morgan:
I hope you love this gift. Can I tell you it’s story? My father made this out of broken pieces – leftover chunks of wood that would otherwise be thrown away.
He glues them together, stacks each piece just so, and attaches them to the lathe where he cuts away all the edges – inside and out – and sands them so their are smooth.
Sometimes this process rids them of the scars of growth lines or wood rot, and sometimes it just accentuates the defects. He puts polyurethane on them as a sealant and sets them out to dry.
They turned out beautiful, didn’t they?
My father says they remind him of God.
We all have broken pieces, scars, broken relationships – things that didn’t work out like we thought in our lives – things we wish we had never done. Things we wish could just be thrown away.
Sometimes we look at them and say, “God, I don’t know why or how you can use that. Why don’t you make it go away?”
God picks those pieces.
The dark ones.
The scars.
The lines of rot in our lives.
And He begins glueing them back together.
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He continues building – attaching us to the lathe and getting out His tools – chipping away all the jagged edges of sin and pain from our lives – inside and out.
He takes out the sand paper and smooths the roughness away, and He seals us with the blood of His Son, the polyurethane, for protection.
You know the exciting part of this?
Those broken pieces put together by the Master Carpenter – Jesus Christ – are what make us beautiful.
Those broken parts, ready for the trash heap – become useful again.
All we have to do is surrender them to Him.
I hope when you look at this gift, you will remember God loves you. You are fearfully and wonderfully made by a Saviour who sees all of you.
He thinks your beautiful.
But/then what…..
- Read Genesis 24: 12-14; Judges 6: 36 – 40; and 1 Samuel 6: 7-12.
What do these passages have in common?
What is an area in your life needing specific prayer?
Write out a prayer to God detailing specifically the needs on your heart.
2. How do the following passages encourage and teach us to fully surrender to God’s will and plan for our live’s?
Ruth 1: 1-18
Psalms 37:5
Psalms 44
Jeremiah 17: 5-8
Matthew 14: 22-33
3. What is your greatest fear and/or obstacle hindering you from total surrender to Him?