Do you ever feel like your life is just a mess. Like there are pieces of you spread all over the place. Like a smashed vase, there’s spilt water and shattered ceramic and shredded flowers. And you just don’t know where to begin to put it back together again. Let alone how to get into a place where you would be proud to show it off, or give it as a gift.
You try to super glue it back together, but the cracks are still there, and the water pours back out. You try and gather back up the water and pour it into another container, but it’s impossible to pick back up, and the flowers are still a mess.
Trapped by broken relationships, or guilt from past you are stuck. In a place where you can’t move forward and you definitely can’t go back.
You know there is no way of sorting out this mess on your own. There is no hope of getting back what you once had, there is no chance left. It feels like you are too far gone.
When our lives are a mess, when it feels like there is no hope left and we have gone too far; even then God is still devising ways to bring us back to him.
Maybe he needed to push you over the edge so you would fall into his arms.
It doesn’t matter how broken you are; how far from him you have run, or what you have done. He’s running towards you as well. This is not the end of the story, it is just the end of a chapter.
Turn the page, run to him, and he will restore you.
Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him. (2 Samuel 14:14)
Me Set Free 
“It doesn’t matter how broken you are; how far from him you have run, or what you have done. He’s running towards you as well. This is not the end of the story, it is just the end of a chapter.”
OH what beautiful encouragement. I have been there many times, and I am forever grateful for His enduring gracious open arms waiting to catch us, now matter how hard the fall and how broken we are.
Thank you for this, Alice!
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Thank you for taking the time to comment. I have been there so many times before as well
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I remember being in this state of brokenness 20 years ago. I reached out to a loving Father who picked me up and loved me in his arms and healed me.
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That’s great news! Thanks for taking the time to comment Lawson!
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Thank you for sharing that scripture from 2 Samuel. I need to go look that up!
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It’s such a great one, and one I had never noticed until my dad pointed it out to me a few days ago xx
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This was so encouraging and heartfelt. I always know that He is seeking me and “running towards me” but somehow it slips my mind when I’m going through something hard that makes me start losing hope. This is a wonderful reminder. Thank you, dear.
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Yes it’s easy to forget this great news during the hard times, I definitely need this reminder as well xx
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What a wonderful reminder of our great and compassionate God! He sees us in our weakest times, and he’s always there to lift us up and restore us. I’ve needed this encouragement over the last few days. Thank you!
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Thank you for your kind comment, indefinitely need this message as well, even though I wrote it!
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I am so thankful that God devised plans to bring me back to him! A Blessing! He is so selfless! God Bless!
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Me too! Many blessings to you as well xx
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I am so thankful that God devises plans to bring me back when I’m lost. He is so selfless! That teaches me. God Bless!
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God bless you as well! Isn’t it incredible news xx
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Very well-written: I like when you said “Maybe he needed to push you over the edge so you would fall into his arms.” That is often so true at times!
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Yep, I know that one is definitely true for me xx
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God amazes me in His unique ability to taken brokenness and bring healing and restoration. There is no one like Him.
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It’s incredible isn’t it, how God can use even out worst experiences for good!
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Feel so priveledged at how he is there whatever mess I am in to help me be glued or even remoulded. So glad my life has Gods hand upon it.
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Me too! Isn’t that great news for us all!
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“Even then God is still devising ways to bring as back to Him.” Beautifully written! Thanks for the reminder 💕
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