“His expertise is taking into his masterful care ordinary people who have lived broken lives, and turning our lives into nothing less than masterpieces.”

A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus, (2014-02-25) from his book, The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art (p. 178). Harper Collins. Kindle Edition.

There are two words in this thought that caught my attention. The first was broken. There are so many in this world have and are living broken lives. They have no hope.

I’m looking at this in my other blog, Bill’s Front Porch. There are so many areas in our life that we need to recover from. Areas such as: Overeating * Overworking * Alcohol/Drugs * Overspending * Grief * Guilt * Anger/Rage * Fear/Anxiety * Divorce * Abuse * Insecurity * Sexual Addictions * Codependency * Habit * Perfectionism * Lying * Hypochondria * Hurtful Relationships * Procrastination * Gambling * The Need To Control. There are so many areas of brokenness and helplessness in people’s lives. One of these could be yours and you see your world through your area of brokenness and you see no way out. Life can be very hopeless can’t it?

The other word that caught my attention was masterpieces. In short Erwin says that His, God’s expertise is turning broken lives into nothing less than masterpieces. He takes into His masterful care ordinary people, that’s you and me who have lived broken lives, no matter what area of your life is broken He can turn in into nothing less than a masterpiece if we let Him.

Peter denied knowing Jesus after he had been with Him as one of His chosen ones. He denied knowing Him when Jesus was on trial. And when he realized what he had done Peter went out as a totally broken man and wept and wept but Jesus forgave him and it was upon Peter that Jesus built His church. He truly became one of His masterpieces.

And He wants to do the same with you. Put this thought up somewhere and start living with the hope of what God wants to do and can do in and through your broken life. There is hope in Him. Let Him through His masterful care start doing His work in and through you.

So in what area are you broken?

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