Shattered

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When Rusty and I married, I picked the Blue Lily pattern for my Corelle dishes.  In 1990, Country Blue was the popular color.  I wanted Corelle because that's what Mom always had. It was marketed as being chip & break resistant.  While they were durable and lasted longer than most, break resistant doesn't mean unbreakable. Mom and Dad's first house had red brick pavers for the floors. They were beautiful when they were polished but those floors did a number on dropped dishes. Corelle may have been harder to break, but when it did, it shattered into what seemed like a million pieces.

Have you ever felt shattered?  Maybe you're normally strong and resilient. It takes a lot to break you and in the rare times it happens, you pick up the pieces and bounce back quickly. Then one day, you're hit with something so hard that your normal ability to withstand the pressures of the world seem to have vanished.  You find yourself broken into a pile of pieces and all you can do is try to put yourself back together the best you can. Did you know that you don't have to do that alone? In fact, you can't... but there is someone who can.  

In Romans 8, we're told that as a follower of Christ, the Spirit of the living God lives inside of us. There will be times when we'll feel wounded, our hearts will break, and our world seems to shatter. We aren't promised that we won't go through times of suffering, but what we do know is that no troubles we face on this earth can compare to the joy that's coming in the end for those that have called on the name of Jesus and have made Him the Lord of their life. In the meantime, rely on Him and he'll help put you back together.

No matter what you're going through today, think of these words of the Josh Wilson song, Before the Morning, posted below. "The pain that you've been feeling, it can't compare to the joy that's coming... Cause the pain that you've been feeling, it's just the dark before the morning... Once you feel the weight of glory, all your pain will fade to memory."

Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory He will reveal to us later.  -Romans 8:18 NLT

If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. -Romans 10:9 NLT

 


Enjoy this clip of Lucy and the Unbreakable Dishes 




Before the Morning - Josh Wilson





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