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Stained Glass

Published on 10:08 PM By Aunica
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Have you ever seen those beautiful stained glass windows? Some of them just are colorful, some depict symbols, and others even are pieced together to form the image of Jesus. Stained glass windows, when the sun shines through them, are a true beauty. But it isn't the color that makes them beautiful, or the shapes they're put together in even, but the fact that they're broken. They wouldn't be nearly as beautiful if it was a perfect slate of one pure color. Aren't our lives like stained glass windows? Or shouldn't they be? We're most beautiful when we're broken. By being broken we allow God to come in and pick up our pieces. We accept what's already true, that we mess up. That we can't do this alone. When we allow God to pick up the broken pieces that are our lives without Him, we allow Him to turn our lives into a multi-color masterpiece. Like clay, He can mold and shape us to become what He intended us to be. Masterpieces of the Creator of the Universe. So that when He pieces us together and glues us back in place, we find that we are changed. The Gospel should change how we live. We are no longer slaves to sin, but we live under the law of Christ now - and our lives should look very different. They should be contrasted like black and white, salt and pepper, day and night. Because our lives without Christ were sinful. We were controlled by our sin nature and lived a life truly saturated in sin. But our lives with Christ should be completely different. Yes, we will still sin, but we are no longer sinners. When we believe in Christ, we are washed by His blood and purified. We no longer live under the laws of sin. When we recognize our sin, we should be broken by it. Be appalled. Feel sad. Remorseful. And ask for forgiveness. Good news - God forgives us of our sins! And, while we no longer should look the same on the inside, He will re-piece us together into a masterpiece that is even more beautiful than before. A masterpiece of a life with Christ. And that is a beautiful sight to behold.
Not only are stained glass windows a great representation of our brokenness, but the very name is a teachable moment. We were stained by our sins, but when we choose to follow Christ, His blood covers that sin and washes us white as snow. We are stained by the blood of Christ. Only....colorfully - so we can shine even brighter the light that is His Good News. We have the glorious privileged of sharing the great story of our Jesus.
Aunica

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