We all have emotional rubble in our life. The rubble could be from our past, a foundation turned upside down in childhood, a life dismantled by our own actions, a person who smashed our lives with their actions or things we chose to believe that have torn us down. There are too many reasons to list. What I do know is that we all have rubble.
Sometimes the rubble is so extensive we refuse to let anyone near it. There are precious things buried in the rocks and we don’t want anyone disturbing them again, so we leave it as is and refuse to let anyone help us. We can end up just living in the rubble.
Other times we build walls with our rubble. This prevents anyone from digging around, but walls also keep people out and it is lonely living behind them.
Other times we can try to put the rubble back together ourselves. We start to build, but we aren’t architects. We can only guess which piece goes where. We may spend enough time working on ourselves that we might resemble something half-way functional, but all it takes is one storm to bring it all crashing down. Building on top of rubble only builds an unstable house.
In our life, Christ asks us to give him our broken pieces so that he can make something new. If we refuse, our lives are spent falling over and around one piece of broken rubble after another. We may be forgiven and saved, but we aren’t living abundantly.
God desires to sort through your rubble and turn it into something that brings Him glory. Some rubble He clears away, some He replaces but most often He uses the rubble in His master plan. In His design, He first builds a foundation and then begins to pick up our pieces and use them to rebuild us. The old is never gone. It is recreated into something new that is built on his love and held together by his truths.
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