“BROKEN!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 562

January 18, 2022///

This morning I want to share with you a truth in a type of art! I have shared this method before but with all the stress attacking so many today and all the things we see wrong with us and our lives, I believe this illustration of truth is just what we need to lift us to a higher place in our lives and all God wants to do through us!

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Kintsugi: the art of precious scars

By repairing broken ceramics it’s possible to give a new lease of life to pottery that becomes even more refined thanks to its “scars”. The Japanese art of kintsugi teaches that broken objects are not something to hide but to display with pride.

This traditional Japanese art uses a precious metal – liquid gold, liquid silver or lacquer dusted with powdered gold – to bring together the pieces of a broken pottery item and at the same time enhance the breaks. The technique consists in joining fragments and giving them a new, more refined aspect. Every repaired piece is unique, because of the randomness with which ceramics shatters and the irregular patterns formed that are enhanced with the use of metals.

 

///This morning I want you to think of all the broken dreams, desires, or situations in your life. Maybe you have given up and are ready to just throw in the towel and try to survive this life.

But may I tell you that God wants you to bring those broken places to Him and He will fill them with the gold and silver of the Holy Spirit and new life in Him and make something beautiful out of what you thought was gone forever.

There are those all around us who appear altogether on the outside but inside are broken dreams and desires. Things they have buried because of mistakes and wrong turns they have taken in life.

All of us have those “what was I thinking” questions about decisions we have made!

Some of us may have broken places that were put there by circumstances beyond our control!

Our Father God, through Jesus Christ, has provide forgiveness, mercy, and desires to take the broken parts of you and put them together again and use you as a vessel of Honor!

Acts 9:15 (KJV)
But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

This scripture is referring to the Apostle Paul after he had an encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus!

God chose Paul to be a vessel bringing the Gospel to all of the region! God repaired his brokenness over his past persecution of believers and made him a vessel of honor bringing not only the gospel to the regions all around but to write so much of the New Testament that is a blessing and teaching for us today!

What could our vessels do for the Kingdom of God if we gave Him, not just our good, but also all the broken parts of us and let Him put them back together much more valuable than before!

The lesson is something beautiful can be made out of our scars and broken places.

What a friend we have in Jesus who can take us as we are and mold us into what we were created to be!

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Father, in Jesus’ name I come! I bring the broken pieces of trying and failing, of not trying, of making decisions that took me in the wrong direction, of pretending that I have no broken pieces or scars. I release all of this to you and declare that a beautiful vessel will emerge from the touch of your hand as you put those broken places back together! Amen

Love, MeMaw