This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.
There are times when we realize God has really been working on us. Often, I find myself wondering if God is truly working on my heart. I gave it to Him. Has He sent the Holy Spirit to work on my heart, to make it clean? Is He changing me from the broken person I once was to a new heart filled with Him? This past weekend I had something happen that made me realize, in a seemingly small way, God has been working on me, changing me.
We went camping with friends for a few days. I love going out in nature, camera in hand, walking and taking pictures of all the magnificent ways I see God’s fingerprints. Flowers, birds, bees, anything in nature. I have had my camera for a long time. I always left my zoom lens on it as it was my favorite for what I could do with it. God gave me so many wonderful opportunities to try and capture what He showed me. I love my camera!
On the last night of the trip, I had a fall. It was a rather hard fall too! I scraped my knee up pretty bad. I managed to get myself to where I was sitting up, but I did not feel right at all. I realized later my body was going through a bit of shock. Even though I was not feeling right and did not want to even try to get up and walk where the others were, I did take note of two things. One, there was a ledge, or curb, that I did not know was there and was the cause of my fall. Two, my camera was laying on the pavement with the lens broken off and the battery door laying to the side. Here is where I noticed it.
I was not sad about my lens. I was not upset by it. I was not mad or anything. It was possible even the camera was broken and not just the lens. But I was fine with it. I was at peace with it. God gave me so many good pictures. I had a blessed time with our friends. There was nothing but blessings and even looking at my broken lens laying there I still felt the blessings and the peace.
There was a time I would have cried. I would have pouted and been so upset that my favorite lens was broken and could not be used again. But I wasn’t. All I felt was peace.
We are all broken, like my lens. But we have a loving Heavenly Father who picks up the pieces and makes something beautiful from it. If we let Him, He will mold us into people with Christlike hearts. He will give us love, understanding, and peace. Allow Him to mend your broken pieces. He will make something so beautiful. He will give you His peace.