I was writing diligently in my office. I hear my 6 year old, Seth come up the stairs crying his eyes out. The kind of deep sobbing that you think they have just been injured or something really terrible.
I jumped up, grabbed him, hugged him and wiped the tears away though they wereinstantly replaced again leaving trails down his cheeks. I asked him what had happened as I scanned his little frame to spot any injuries. He managed to get out in between sobs that a Lego building (his mom and he had just built the night before) had fallen off the table and flipped upside down. Pieces had broken off and he just didn’t know what to do…it was broken for good.
Well, I assured him dad could handle that..no biggie! That brought a little crack of a smile. We went downstairs and I did a quick assessment of the damage. Yep, it had fallen and things looked pretty bad. I picked it up and did a Bob the Builder imitation “Can we fix it? YES WE CAN!” That brought a bigger smile. (where’s Wendy at a time like this!)
I found the instruction manual for it and began to piece it all back together. It was as good as new in about 15 minutes. He was thrilled.
I couldn’t help but think as I walked back to my computer what God must think. How it must bring him great joy when we come to him- with some huge thing to us..some part of our life wrecked…in disrepair…falling apart…and we simply don’t see how it can work out. How it can be put back together. He simply picks us up..puts his arms around us and comforts us…hey that’s the Holy Spirit’s job, right?
He then begins to methodically, piece by piece put things back in place. Look..He is the creator..He has the manual. He knows how things are supposed to look and function..he knows the plans He has for us..what He designed and intended. If we listen to Him and we obey…we can become whole again in every aspect. That thing that seemed so impossible isn’t so big anymore.
Yeah, with some things, relationships especially, the hurt and pain doesn’t go instantly away. But if we follow his plan..if we allow Him to remove and add pieces, do some adjustments and reconfigure – we can overcome and allow those areas to be filled by Him.
It was no big deal for me to put that Lego back together. I had the plan for that structure. It’s the same with God- He knows us better than we know ourselves. He can and will restore us.
