How To Deal With Broken Lives

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Life Lessons: Kintsukuroi


Life Lessons deals with broken lives. Has your life ever fallen apart? Has that happened to someone in your family? Has it happened to a friend? We can all answer, Yes! But is being broken the end of the road, or just a new beginning?

Life Lessons: Kintsukuroi

Kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold or silver resins. The word means gold mend. Until this past Sunday, this was a term I did not know. However, this art form was used to Life Lessonsillustrate a point in the pastor’s sermon. The applications are many and varied.
Discovering kintsukuroi was a good thing for me. As I thought about it (during the sermon) it was a beautiful illustration of so many lives, including my own. The pastor used the idea of kintsukuroi to illustrate one life. It seemed to me that other lives worked even better.
Rahab, the harlot of Jericho, is a great example. Her life was at the bottom of the heap. The pieces of her life were gathered together and God made them into something beautiful. Do you know what He did? He put her in the family line of King David and of Jesus Christ:

Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab, Boaz was the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse.

As you may recall, Jesse was David’s father. But that is not all the Bible has to say about Rahab:

By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish along with those who were disobedient, after she had welcomed the spies in peace.

In addition, James says Rahab was justified by her works in connection with the spies. What we know of her life shows it was beautifully pieced back together. Like the pottery mended with gold, her pieced-together life was much more beautiful than it ever was prior to being broken.

Life Lessons: Kintsukuroi Is About YOU!

I also thought about the life of Zacchaeus. His life was in shambles. Jesus beautifully put it back Life Lessonstogether. The shattered life of a tax collector became a source for God’s glory. Then there was Mary Magdalene. Hers was another story of pieces mended for God’s glory. If we are honest, we have to include the Apostle Paul in a list like this. He went from persecutor to proclaimer and wrote half the New Testament.
There are many other examples we could cite. The only one extremely important to you is your handful of broken pieces. No matter what has transpired in your life, you are not unique https://genericforgreece.com/. We all like to pretend we aren’t broken. The truth is, every one of us is broken. There are two things that remain.
First, how did my life get broken? That story is unique to you, but the results are something we all share.
kintsukuroi pendant 2Second is what we choose to do about it. Some people hang on to the pieces of their lives. They try patches that don’t work or they spend their days hiding from their brokeness. Others decide to give up their pieces. They give Jesus what they cannot possibly fix and let Him do the gold mending through the power of His grace.
Like the lives I mentioned, and the potter in the pictures, He can genuinely make something beautiful of any life given to Him.

Soli Deo Gloria! 

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