For many years, the path I was on was broken. To be honest, I don’t think for a second that any of our paths have ever been picture-perfect, without any damage from the start, because everybody’s path has been broken at some point. It’s just that some paths get more broken than others, and our paths break in diverse ways.
Imagine you’re driving a car and you come to a T-junction. You want to turn right, so you get in the right-hand lane and stop at the end. Then, a bus pulls up next to you in the left-hand lane and stops at the end. The bus sets off and turns left, but as it swings around the corner, the back end hits the rear of your car and jolts you! And then the bus doesn’t stop – it just carries on!!
What would you do? Call the police? Phone a friend? Get out and take a Facebook selfie?
Or would you chase after the bus? Like I did when it happened to me on Boundary Lane in Hulme!
Fast and Furious–style! You could smell the burning rubber! I sped past the bus and did a handbrake turn in front of it to stop it – well, sort of.
I opened my passenger window. His window was open. ‘Hey, mate [I think that’s what I called him], you’ve just hit the back of my car’. ’What, me? I haven’t’. ‘Yeah, you have! When you pulled out up there and swung round, you pushed me right over. You must have felt it’. ‘No, I didn’t feel anything’.
I got out of my car and walked to the back. ‘Come and have a look’. He got out, too. ’Look at the state of that! It’s well damaged – see all the paint there, from your bus. You can’t deny that, mate. You’re bang to rights’. ‘Oh yeah, looks like I did hit you, didn’t I? I didn’t know, though’. ‘Errm, I bet you didn’t’. ‘Sorry about that. I’ll give you my details’.
So I parked just down the road and rang my insurance. ‘I’ve just had an incident. A bus hit my car. The side’s all damaged’. ‘Okay, Mr Woodward, someone from our auto services will be in touch with you later to arrange for your car to be picked up’.
Within a week, it was back. Repaired!
Did you know that the damage from the incidents we have can be repaired in the same way?
Because God’s a repairer! He does this with us, and He’s in the habit of doing it when we’re on that broken path.
Listen: that broken path is where repairs can get actioned!
A guy in the Bible, Job – man, he was proper damaged from the incidents he’d had while on his ‘broken path’. Then God flipped the script.
The Bible says, ‘God restored him and gave him back twice as much.’
See, that broken path is where repairs can get actioned!
Think about the damage that’s happened to you from your incidents on your ‘broken path’. Listen: God can repair that damage, and more!
No matter what kind of broken path you’re on, remember: it can be a place where repairs can get actioned!
Barry