Good Morning All,
Isaiah 45:3; “I will give you the treasures of darkness and
the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the
God of Israel, who call you by your name.”
A few years ago, I was watching a movie
called “Sea Biscuit”. It was about a
racehorse as a huge underdog in a race.
I don’t remember a lot of the movie but for some reason a line from that
movie has always stuck with me. “You
don’t throw away a whole life just because it is a little banged up.”
That line is one of those lines that we
should always remember. As we go through
life, we all get a “little banged up”.
Sin and the devil and the world do a great job of banging us up. We all live with a few nicks and a few
scars. Some of it is things which we
have done in our life, those sins which we committed against someone and we
never confessed the, never really repented them; we just sort of held on to
them and kept them in our heart, in our conscience, on our back weighing us
down.
Maybe that nick was caused by what someone
did to you. We have a little scar tissue
as we nurse and hold onto the hurt. We
might not remember exactly what happened, or when or where; but we remember it
was him and that he hurt me and I won’t forget it. It doesn’t really matter which way causes the
nicks and the scars. The cruel comment
that really hurt; the rejection; the forgotten promise; the broken
relationships; there are a lot of things which give us nicks and dings and
scars. Most of us are a little banged
up.
The devil loves this world and this kind
of life. He can toy with us and use us
for amusement with each little nick and each little ding. The pain we feel is nothing which he cares
about as long as he is amused. Once he
has beaten you up enough, he will throw you away and find a new one.
Yet God never throws you away. He sent Jesus into this world of nicks and
scars to be nicked and scarred. By his
wounding we are healed. The world
doesn’t understand this. It is hidden in
secret places; it is a treasure of darkness.
It is that treasure that is hidden from sinful man yet God reveals to us
as his children. That treasure is that
God doesn’t throw you away even if you are a little banged up. He picks us up, cleans us off and loves us
with the love of the Father which we cannot even measure. Then he lets us in on this secret
treasure. When the time is right, you
will be restored to the pristine condition which God created us to live. We will live with no nicks and no scars. Together we will share with him the life in
glory with all the believers who have gone before us in faith.
God’s treasure for us is eternal
life. It is hidden from those who reject
it. By this great gift, God shows us his
love for us. There are no nicks which
will cause him to reject us. There are
no scars which will drive him from us.
He keeps coming and coming to us with the love that only the Father will
have.
Gracious Father, we come to you with our nicks and our scars and
you heal us and make us whole. You open
the treasures to us giving us the promise of eternal life. Keep us in your arms and guard us from the
devil and all his ways. In Jesus
precious name we pray, amen.
God’s
Peace,
Pastor
Bret
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