Let me back up. When I was swimming last weekend on the 4th of July, I watched someone try and repair a float. After thinking he conquered it, he realized the hole was still there. So he thought about the next thing to try to make sure that float was like new. In my head I couldn't understand why not just buy another. I'm sure it's cheaper than the material needed to repair it. Then I was hit in the face and instantly thought of this quote:
Wow. Right to the heart. At what point had I became of the world? Had worldly thoughts?
My life verse has always been Romans 12:2. In summary it basically says don't be of the world. Have a different way of thinking that pleases God. So what went wrong?
This is a message to the "young generation".
You can't just throw it all away.
As I thought more and more on this topic a passage in the Bible came to mind. Noah and the flood. Remember that story? Mankind turned their back on God and He got angry. We were broken and useless. God sent a flood and wiped the Earth clean.
After the flood had dried, God made a promise to Noah. “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” (Genesis 8:21-22 NIV)
Even though God wiped the evil away, He saw fault. He promised to never wipe away humankind again.
In Genesis 9 God is very clear.
"I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.” (Genesis 9:11-16 NIV)
You see God made us a promise. Just because we are broken people doesn't mean he'll just "throw us away". He gave us the rainbow to represent and remind us of that. God also gave us Jesus to wipe away our sins and to, in a sense, "fix us". God saw worth in us. Just as that man saw worth in the float last weekend.
Open your eyes young people. Start taking time to work on things instead of just trashing it.
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