Picking Up the Pieces

A good friend of mine recently recommended I watch the video below. While watching I realized something possibly more profound than what the video itself implies. Not only can God pick up the broken pieces and turn them into something beautiful and new, but He can do much more. He can return the broken object to its original form.
Alone, we can try to glue back the pieces, mend the tears in our relationships, erase those words we wish we never said, rewind the tape on that last fight, etc, etc. However, alone, it never comes out perfect. That glass vase you tried to glue back together, will always have a leak, will never look as perfect as it did before it fell onto the floor and smashed. It is damaged both in it's usefulness and in it's beauty.
God is the only one who has the ability to take a broken vessel, and repair it to its original perfection. He can take away all of your sin, guilt, and pain. He can mend your relationships. He can make you perfect again. Without Him, we end up like broken pieces of glass on the floor, we try to put the pieces of our lives back together again, but alone, the pieces don't match up, and we feel a void, and we can never fill the leaky holes.
I know that was a lot of symbolism in one blog, but I hope you understand my comparison. The main point is to understand that without God, we try to fill voids in our lives with other things to give us happiness, and it never works. The only way to feel the relief of guilt, shame, hurt, abandonment, whatever you are feeling, is through Him. There is nothing else in this world with as lasting effects. Be blessed. I hope you like the video.

http://youtu.be/gT-QWSxV0Hs

xoxo