There is beauty in the brokeness

God’s glory is on tour in the skies,
    God-craft on exhibit across the horizon.
 

Madame Day holds classes every morning,
    Professor Night lectures each evening.

Their words aren’t heard,
    their voices aren’t recorded,
But their silence fills the earth:
    unspoken truth is spoken everywhere.

            Psalm 19:1-2 (Message translation)

God tells us that He made everything perfect: perfect trees, perfect mountains, perfect cows, perfect people. 

But then because of the old there-must-be-greener-grass mentality, it broke. 

Trees rot. 

Mountains collapse. 

Cows get sick. 

People die. 

This is not how it was supposed to be. It is not perfect. 

Thankfully, God can, and does, turn all things to his glory. 

 
Now in putting everything in subjection to him, 

he left nothing outside his control. 

At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.

                                                                    Hebrews 2:7-8

How does this play out in daily living?

Well look at say, sand. 

What is it? 

Broken rocks,  bits of garbage glass and dead sea animals. 

Look at fall leaves. Why do we see the colors?

The leaves that are about to die. 

But sand is beautiful and Fall takes our breath away. 

So even in the midst of brokenness we see beauty.

Not that the brokenness is beautiful in and of itself. 

That is not in Gods' character:

 God didn’t set us up for an angry rejection 

but for salvation by our Master, Jesus Christ. 

He died for us, a death that triggered life. 

                                  1 Thessalonians 5:9 

 The sovereign God is there, doing what He does best...and only he can do. 

Restore.