“I come broken to be mended
I come wounded to be healed
I come desperate to be rescued
I come empty to be filled
I come guilty to be pardoned
By the blood of Christ the Lamb
And I’m welcomed with open arms
Praise God, just as I am”
(This stanza is a bridge between verses of “Just As I Am,” as sung by Travis Cottrell.)
“I come broken to be mended…”
The truth is we are broken. All of us. We can come to God no other way.
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Eugene O’Neill
In our experience broken things that have been mended will always show signs of damage: cracks, chips, scars. Because that’s the best we can do. And we value them less.
But that is not the best God can do! He is, and always will be, the Creator. And in our brokenness, He recreates us!
Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start,
is created new. The old life is gone; a new life emerges! Look at it!
All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him,
and then called us to settle our relationships with each other. 2 Corinthians 5:17-18a The Message
And we are not all that He recreates:
So spacious is he, so expansive, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.
Colossians 1:19-20 The Message
Then he who is seated upon the throne said, “See, I am making all thing new!”
And he added, “Write this down for my words are true and to be trusted!”
Revelation 21:5 J.B. Phillips New Testament
Even when everyone – including ourselves – sees only failures and faults, God sees possibilities.
And not just what is possible but what He always knew we would be! Our very best self!
Just remember –
