It is only right and fair, that we end the drip, drip, drip, in series, with a bang, bang, bang. That is a week after the repair of the drip; hole in the roof and destroyed ceiling. As I write I am out of my office, having attempted to sleep on the kitchen floor tiles last night, with perhaps one more night to go. Many lessons to be learnt here, primarily what it means to have a good night sleep. It sets your whole day on a good footing if you slept well the night before. So, how does the drip and the bang work out from a biblical perspective? It dove-tails very well; as one is a problem and the other is a solution. Just like life. There are many examples we could use that things are broken and need to be repaired; but I will use the example of a person emotionally broken. And how they are, repaired so to speak. We all know what Job went through. So let us go straight to Job 17: 1 where he says “my spirit is broken”. Ps 88: 3-4 my soul is full of troubles. Both the verses are almost identical. The spirit/soul, when overwhelmed makes one fear death is near. A consistent and persistent amount of problems and troubles is enough to break anyone. But what is hardest to cope with is the emotional trauma it puts on a person. It makes even small issues, increase exponentially, as the tolerance level is low. I think most can relate to this. What is more difficult however is how to solve the issues that are causing us stress. Many times we cannot. We can solve external issues- call a carpenter, but internal, mind/soul type issues are really the realm of the LORD. Issues we cannot overcome can drive us to despair of life (Job and the psalmist and Jonah- throw me overboard). Spiritual brokenness can drive us to say “there is really no God” or “God has abandoned me” or even “I will sin, do what I want, God will forgive me later when I am ready” and that we can just wipe away all the pains and hurts via “pleasure” and thus numb the senses; just walk away from God, into the arms of satan. Despair can cause us to do things we never did before, only ever imagined doing, and thus we succumb to all the worst that is within us- straight to the arms of sin. Why? How did we get this low? How did we turn from God, the living hope, to the world and its hopelessness? What drove us away from God? Disappointment? Failed dreams? Failed expectations- either our own expectations, or expectations others put on us? We may have done all the external “Christian” things but the inside was a raging mess. Everyone giving us simplistic answers, yet none of them hit our heart. Back to the bang bang bang; repair. Some things, need to be broken completely, in order to be repaired. A little leak, a little patch work; but the solution is break the whole thing. A little yeast, corrupts the whole batch. It all needs to be totally broken, and start all over again. Why? Because some people are holding on to some twisted Scripture, which they once heard, wrongly presented and it ended up destroying them. Solution? Jer 1:10- tear down and destroy. Totally nothing. Then build. The question remains; will the action of rejecting God’s ways, bring me to being rebuilt, or totally destroyed Heb 6: 4-6; total and final destruction. Threats work on few people. Warnings work on few people. The only thing that does work, is a desire to change, a plan and process to make it happen and then a commitment to achieve that goal. Bang bang bang? Noise; but what is the end result? How to repair? Break it totally? For some, due to their mockery of God, and spiritual damage to others, death is the solution 1 Cor 11: 30.
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