The world is as fragile as glass and we are a mirror of the
world. When the world breaks, we shatter into a myriad of shards. The shards
pierce our flesh and our hearts and we slowly have to piece ourselves together,
piece by piece. But the cracks never heal and we remain an imperfect reflection
of an imperfect world.
“My people have
committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the Spring of Living Water, and have
dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.” Jeremiah
2:13
A mirror cannot fix
itself. Searching for a solution to the problem in this world when this world
is the problem will ultimately leave us in a haze of disorder and confusion,
like trying to reassemble the pieces of a jigsaw without the complete picture
as a guide or as the Bible says trying to drink water from a broken cistern
that cannot hold water. Our only hope for peace, our only hope for restoration
is God.
“The Lord our God, the
Lord is one. Love the Lord your God will all your heart and with all your soul
and with all your strength.” Deuteronomy 6:4-5
In a chaotic world God is logic. In a world of disorder God
is order. In a broken and fractured world, God is whole. In an imperfect world,
God is perfection. But how do we reach God – a perfect, sinless Spirit who by
very nature must be outside of the universe and our experience?
“I am the way and the
truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father (God) except through me (Jesus).”
John 14:6
The blood of Christ reconciles us to God and connects us to
the whole again. Jesus is a conductor to God, like a lightning rod that attracts lightning to the earth. The Holy Spirit is the glue that binds the shattered
pieces of our lives together again, slowly but surely healing us to become a
mirror not to a broken world but to a Holy God, reflecting his perfection and
glory. The Bible, God’s inspired Word is the mirror to our souls that allows us
to understand the world.
“Ask and it will be
given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”
Matthew 7:7
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