In this day in age its easy to call yourself a believer, that by accepting Jesus you are transformed, that you are filled with the Holy Spirit. Yet many continue to do the same thing as before.
When I was really young my mother told me a story of a vase representing trust that once broken no matter how hard you try it will never be perfect because you will always see the flaws. For some unknown reason God woke me from my sleep and that story came to mind.
So I asked myself what does that story mean to me now that I am a Christian. I sat and prayed, what would Jesus do? I imagined myself in a museum of old artifacts and saw many vases on a small table, it was in the section called life, I walked by and saw many vases. There were many vases, of trust, of love, of patience, of kindness, of forgiveness, of repentance. As I walked by I hit them by accident and they all came down with a loud crash. As I stood in shock Jesus came and swept all the little pieces and began putting each vase together.
His patience and determination made me feel unworthy just to even watch, but in seeing His love for all the vases and how patient He was I began to see each one come to life again. After putting all the vases together He stood up, smiled at me and walked away.
I stood in amazement of how He put everything that was broken into beautiful vases again. Yet I noticed something strange, it was true what my mother said, the vases will never be perfect. I still see the cracks although small, there they were.
So I asked Jesus, why didn't you make it perfect like they once were? That's when I heard him say, "You were never meant to be perfect, its through your cracks and imperfections that I work with. In the-section of life, I make the brokenness into something beautiful. Its only when you are broken and put together piece by piece can I truly show the world my immense love".
I finally realized that only through our brokenness can we truly see God’s handy work in our lives. May this encourage you to look at your faults and bring the broken pieces to Jesus so that He may restore your vase back to what it was meant for, to show His love to the world!
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