The Broken Vase

This is very unlike me to post so soon after the last post but I feel like the Lord is telling me that someone needs to hear this story.  During one of the sessions at Immerse this weekend someone (I apologize if you are reading this I can't remember who it was) made a statement that I hadn't really thought about until tonight on the way home from our Wednesday night service.  He mentioned that he was getting this picture in his mind of someone sitting in front of a vase that was broken in a million pieces with a bottle of super glue trying to put it all back together.  Far too often this is what we do.....we sit and look at our lives, broken in a million pieces and wonder how in the world we are going to get it all together.  There is not enough super glue in the world to put our crazy lives back together.  The issue here is, God doesn't need you to put your life back together.  In 2 Corinthians 5:17 the Bible says "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new".  What we miss is that we will sit and think all day about how we are in pieces and try to figure out how we can put our lives back together.....but while we stare at that broken vase, God is just trying to get us to look up and realize that He has placed a brand new vase on the table.  We need to stop looking at our past and thinking we aren't good enough or worthy enough and start seeing ourselves as God sees us!  To borrow from one of our great worship leaders Justin, stop looking in the mirror and seeing all the things that are "wrong" with you, start looking in the mirror and seeing Christ in you.  When we give ourselves to Christ we are just as He is.....beautiful!  I know this is a short post and also a quick turn around but I know that there is someone reading this that needed to hear this right now....or maybe you are reading this and someone you love seems to be stuck in this rut and needs you to tell them what you read.  Either way I am praying that each and every one of us can remember that we are indeed a new creation and that creation is beautiful! Love you guys!