Restoring touch!
Verse for Today: Sunday, January 05, 2014
Isaiah 42:3 - A bruised reed
He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not snuff out.
The world throws away broken
reeds and smoked wicks because they have no value or usefulness. A bruised reed
is the prime example of failure. A smoldering wick will only create more smoke
and no fire. So they are written off and taken out of circulation. But these lives still have hope if submitted
to the Master Designer and Divine Potter. He takes such broken and useless
human lives and remold them according to His divine design. He doesn't look
behind a broken or smoked life to probe the past. He looks at the future possibilities
of these seemingly useless lives and makes them useful through His touch of
restoration. He will put His strength and shape into these lives and rejuvenate
them. He will establish His purposefulness and hope in such lives and give them
a new beginning. His Spirit will transform these lives through His power. Any
useless, broken and crumbled life will be accepted by His nail-pierced hands to
impart eternal value and relevance. In fact, God is not at all interested in anything
that is not broken in itself. Only those who are humble and broken hearted will
He remold afresh. The broken life which comes with deep conviction and
confession of their sinfulness and failure to God will be imputed with His life
itself. Any life that goes to God with confession of failure and defeat will
never be left behind. They must admit their unworthiness and uselessness to
Him. They must come with a deep desire
to be healed of their sin-sickness and made whole again. He will then make use
of such new lives for His purpose here on earth. He looks at them through their
possibilities and not through their past failures.
Dear friend, are you in deep
agony because of your failures, defeats and losses in the past? Do you feel
that nothing good will ever come out of your life? Are you being written off by
the world around you like a smoked wick or bruised wick? If the broken, bruised
and smoked pieces of your life are submitted to the Master Craftsman, He will
take you, restore and remold your life and make it new with newer
possibilities, usefulness and worth. When He touches you, your intrinsic value
will skyrocket eternally. He will put His power and strength in you so that
there will be hope and usefulness for you. You will then be challenged to
attempt great things for God and expect great things from Him in and through
your life. You will experience the power of God when the Holy Spirit will invade
your whole being. You will have the seal of ownership of God on you through His
Spirit. Your heart will overflow with the joy of the Lord which will be your
strength. Your behavior and attitude to everything will be God-centered. You
will become salt and light for others to find taste and direction through your
life. You will live to melt away or burn away for others around you. Thus you
will find purposefulness in your life. This is not the time to cry over your
past failures, but to experience a revival in your soul through the touch of
Jesus. Today you have a divine invitation to come to Jesus with the broken
pieces of your life, wrapped in the rags of your life and submit it to Jesus
for remolding and restoration. Allow Him to touch your life and make use of you
for His glory. Live for Him and mind His business and He will mind your
business and lead you victoriously day by day.
Psalms 34:18 – The Lord is
close to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Thought for Today
The touch of the Master Craftsman
will transform failures and losses into splendid possibilities.
Prayer for Today
Dear Lord Jesus: Restore my
bruised and broken life and make me a blessing to many today. Amen!
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