Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Repaired or restored?

I read something interesting in my bible study today. It was talking about how people can change their behavior and overcome challenges even without God, but in order the heart to change we have to have God. That sort of raises the question, "If you can recondition the behavior why change the heart?". I was thinking about how to answer on of the questions about that subject and it hit me...its the difference between being repaired and restored. You can repair something, prop it up, put a bandage on it, sew it back together, but that doesn't mean it works right. You can fix a faucet, but it still might leak. You can change a behavior, but that doesn't mean you're different. You can't accomplish the purpose God has for you until you let Him change your heart. We're not these self regenerated organisms that can heal or restore ourselves. We can repair ourselves and we can prop ourselves up, but until we let our maker restore us, we can't accomplish our purpose. We might be up, but we're still broken. We can survive, but we can't live.

It's like any injury. You can wrap it, tape it, ice it, take drugs to make it feel better...but at the end of the day it still doesn't work right. Only after rest and rehab will it heal completely...and even then there can be scars. You wake up on a cold morning and that ankle that's felt fine for months all the sudden is back. Same thing. Only after resting in God and spending time in Him (rest & rehab) can we heal. The scars are our consequences. He will deliver us from our trouble, but we still have consequences to face.

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