THROW-AWAY

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Used plastics may seem like a nuisance or eyesore; but the enterprising collect and recycle them into tabo, batya, park benches or even polyester fabrics-a bit more interesting than what they used to be.

Broken glass made new? Of course! Cullet or scrap glass, mixed with sand, soda ash and limestone, can be molded into high-value glass packaging. 

If engineers and entrepreneurs can repurpose throw-aways, couldn't our heavenly Manufacturer do too with us? He's after all the Mighty God who created everything by His awesome power.

Isaiah 64:8---But now, O LORD, Thou art our Father; we are the clay, and Thou our Potter; and we all are the work of Thy hand.

How many times have you been broken or crushed---almost sure you were doomed---but you hollered and He scooped you from your sinkhole of despair? 

"W" lurked in dark alleys where sexual perversion became his daily fare. "L" thought her life ended when her husband of many years left her---penniless and homeless---for a woman half her age. 

But to the great Rebuilder, no life can be so totally messed up beyond repair. He promised to transplant our heart of stone with a heart of flesh---able to hear His voice and motivated to zoom through Victory Boulevard. 

Jesus came "... to proclaim freedom for the prisoners... to set the oppressed free," Luke 4:18. Nothing is too impossible for the Mighty God who died on our behalf to ransom us from utter failure. 

"W" and "L" met Jesus just in the nick of time and turned their lives around. Was it easy to escape their barb-wired past? 

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Like shattered glass melted in a furnace with heat up to 2800 degrees Fahrenheit---so that they can be molded into brand new beauties, "W" and "L" must have struggled with unbelief, insecurity and the temptation to continue to bear grudges and return to sin's back alleys. 

They leaned on loving family and friends; and learned that Jesus was the only way to bounce back.

Let's face it, rebuilding broken lives is not easy. But that's the reason Jesus came. His grace is sufficient for us, cushioning us from the pain of our past. 

In Jesus, no one is ever a throw-away.