Undeserving, Tossed Aside and Broken ... Crayons?

Everyone of us have seen them. In fact most of us would even recognize the smell of them. On occasion we have noticed the very young try to taste the original refinement of these helpless ones. Torn and pealed back at the casing, they are abused and pressured to conform to the will of whatever strength of hand inflicts their lives with the need to produce. They are cracked and blunted at the heart of their offering of life. Chafed and rubbed mercilessly in the course of their ever shortening productiveness. So many reduced to a stub of their former glory. Waiting helplessly in the recesses of their current coffin-like existence.

Most of the catastrophic damage to their existence can be attributed the carelessness of the untrained, erratic energies of the immature novice. None the less, the damage has been done, and even when the more “mature” and skilled minister arrives on the scene, there is very little that can be done. The damage is usually assayed, and the next step in the lives of these victims is the trash pile.

Although this heart wrenching description almost pulls and tugs at our memories of the careless affliction poured onto our lives by so many participants… my eyes are actually observing a container full of crayons. This vividly biased, cryptic depiction is very true of most of the crayons in the “community can” of crayons, prepared for the young ones, that visit the Redding residence and request the need to express their creativity by coloring. However, in the lives of souls who will spend eternity somewhere, this depiction could paint a bleak and hopeless future if the most important PARTICIPANT is left in the alcoves and neglected.

Sadly too, many of us who are aware of THIS PARTICIPANT still drive ourselves into the direction of “undeserving, tossed aside and broken” ...”Just throw me away” my deceitful heart is prone to relentlessly say...”I don't deserve anything, just throw me away”.

For those who truly wish to know the pleas of the Spirit - read (very prayerfully) Romans 8 with the vantage point that: God truly loves you and wants you to experience His love lavished on your lives and your living.

The summary found in the very end of this chapter in verses 38 and 39 should never be reduced to mere cliché, but should be held ever so close in those times that we join in mutual suffering with the crayons:

Romans 8:38 & 39 - “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Please stop resisting the obvious attempts of God to love you. He leaps over the sinful rubbish (that you and I have created) with “paid in full” forgiveness. He even dips into our “community can” of broken crayons, pulls what would be counted as the most undeserving, tossed aside and broken pieces, and as we let Him participate...creates masterpieces of His Glory with you.

Let Jesus Love you Openly,

HLFA,

Jeff