All the King’s Horses and All the Kings Men…
So, if you have read my previous blogs, you would know that my beloved Pam bobble head met an untimely demise! It was a sad day, since she was fairly new and a gift from a close friend. However, she has recovered from her fall and unlike All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men in the story of Humpty Dumpty, I have the fabulous invention of Super Glue® in my possession! I was able to put her back together again. She is a little worse for wear. She has chips missing from her knee caps and stands a little bit of an angle (do to the glue), but she is back!
It got me to thinking though… about broken people. As a former broken person, I have to admit that I could relate to my bobble head. Hey, no laughing! Stick with me on this! Broken people often pick the pieces up themselves, use some form of “Super Glue” (drugs, alcohol, sex, work, relationships etc.) and try to put themselves back together. However, little pieces of them have been lost or unrepairable. They continue on with life until the get knocked down again (♫I get knocked down, but I get up again. No, yur neva gonna keep me down!♫) and everytime they get up they lose pieces of themselves and the ones they put back together, leave scars and you can see they are damaged and hurting.
The Great News is that God doesn’t put the pieces back together. WHAT? You heard me! He doesn’t get out his lifetime supply of Human Fix It Super Glue and start piecing people back together. He makes them new creatures. He restores them! He creates in them a clean heart and renews a right spirit within them! Psalm 51! Okay, so we live with the consequences of our choices or choices other made for us (abuse etc.) and that will affect things in our life. We don’t, however, have to allow this to rule our lives, we can live in JOY. We are not ruled by the scars or the brokenness of the life we had before. We have a fresh page!
Sorry Pam, inanimate objects don’t count and you will have to deal with the chips and scratches. But my friends, you don’t have to! This IS our freedom in Christ! And I am so grateful for that!
