I heard this song for the first time Friday night: Beautiful Offering by Big Daddy Weave.
"Take this broken life I bring
Make it a beautiful offering
Your love changes everything
I am a beautiful offering
A beautiful offering... to You!"
Make it a beautiful offering
Your love changes everything
I am a beautiful offering
A beautiful offering... to You!"
I did a really good job at breaking my life. Completely and totally wrecking it beyond anything recognizable to what it was. I took this fragile earthen vessel and shattered it into a thousand pieces.
But in my sin, in my shame and regret, in the guilt, I brought what I had back to the only place I'd ever found rest. I brought each shattered piece and broken dream and laid them at the feet of Jesus. I had nowhere left to run, not from my sin not from myself not from the condemnation of others. Tired and broken I brought it to Him.
And while at times it's been an ugly hard process, He's putting the broken pieces of this vessel back together. The world might see that there are cracks and seams everywhere and wonder how on earth this could ever be a vessel worth anything. But that's just it--it's not an earthly worth. God knew that I'd mess up like this; He knew all my sin and ugliness and He chose me. And He loved me. And He loves me still.
The beauty in my broken vessel is that my brokenness is mended by His Grace. And what better offering to give back to Him than the life He saved, than the life He redeemed?
My story doesn't end here. God has more cracks to mend and more of His glory to reveal. He does for you, too. When the load from all your broken pieces gets too heavy, I invite you to lay them at Jesus' feet. He wants to make you a beautiful offering, too.
