I have a dear friend that has been rejected, abused, violated, and abandoned by people that should have cherished and loved her. As I was worshipping the Lord in church this past week the Lord showed me a picture and told me it was for my friend.
I saw in this picture broken pottery pieces scattered on the ground. I could tell those broken pieces had been there a long time for the edges were no longer sharp. They had been worn smooth with time. The Holy Spirit told me to look closer, as I gazed on the pottery pieces I saw a variety of beautiful flowers growing up through the broken pottery pieces.
The next morning I was prompted to call my friend and describe the picture I saw.
When I got her on the phone and started describing the picture God gave specifically for her, the Holy Spirit burst forth with a beautiful word for her. I can't even remember all that was said. The gist of it was that God created beauty within all her brokenness. This beauty God created shows His glory in what He can do with a life that has been broken in so many pieces by the selfishness of this world. She started crying and told me she had just been praying and was asking God what He could do with all the broken pieces of her life!
Later that week as I thought of that picture I asked the Lord why He didn't remove all the broken pieces, and I was reminded of His hands and feet. He was broken for us and when we see His scars we see the glory of God!
Here is a little poem I wrote.
See the broken pieces Lord
Scatter on the ground
Look at all the brokenness
Scatter all around
He said look again
Tell me what you see
I saw beauty bursting forth
Coming from the pieces
But why my Lord did you not
Clear away the broken pot
Why the scars Lord for all to see
Then He showed me
His hands and feet
It was then, I finally saw
All the beauty of the scars
It was in His broken pieces that
He was glorified and when we look
at Him we see the beauty of the scars
Now I look so differently
At the wonder of His plan
Now I see the beauty
in all the broken pieces.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Saturday, November 9, 2013
We are one
John 17
22 The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; 23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
25 “O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; 26 and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
Every day I pray for the Lord to show me a little more about Himself. It is as we know Him that we grow and function as the human creature that God made us to be. Last night I had a peculiar dream. I saw a lone man and I saw the Holy Spirit enter into that man and took on the shape of that man. The man had been walking, but now he was walking with the Spirit within Him. Since the Spirit was invisible (don't ask me how I could see the invisible, it was a dream after all), the man and Spirit were operating as one. The Spirit and the man were communicating with one another without even using words. Strange dream. I'm not sure the words here are adequate to convey what I actually saw, but it gives you something to think about.
There is a sweetness to the above scriptures that conveys to me that God is eager to impart this glory to us, that His Holy Spirit is within us. The Trinitarian God is within us. We then are joined to each other as a body of Christ, as one! Beautiful. Think about it!
22 The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; 23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
25 “O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; 26 and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
Every day I pray for the Lord to show me a little more about Himself. It is as we know Him that we grow and function as the human creature that God made us to be. Last night I had a peculiar dream. I saw a lone man and I saw the Holy Spirit enter into that man and took on the shape of that man. The man had been walking, but now he was walking with the Spirit within Him. Since the Spirit was invisible (don't ask me how I could see the invisible, it was a dream after all), the man and Spirit were operating as one. The Spirit and the man were communicating with one another without even using words. Strange dream. I'm not sure the words here are adequate to convey what I actually saw, but it gives you something to think about.
There is a sweetness to the above scriptures that conveys to me that God is eager to impart this glory to us, that His Holy Spirit is within us. The Trinitarian God is within us. We then are joined to each other as a body of Christ, as one! Beautiful. Think about it!
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