When Glass is Shattered!

Glass is a fragile substance that needs to be handled with care. Just one hit to its surface will cause a crack or break; sometimes, depending on how hard the impact is to the glass, it will shatter into many tiny pieces that can shoot out fast and hard - harming things and people in its path. 

The clean up, if not careful, can deeply cut the person or persons so as the saying goes, “Proceed with caution”!

My sister's passenger window was shattered

There are so many of us who are shattered (Broken in Spirit) and do not realize it by words, physical abuse, sexual abuse, drugs, sickness, and debt - just to name a few that can shatter us into pieces. Yet we continue in that state of mind and residue not being cognitive of anything we do, say or become. 

Think about shattered glass. The best thing to do is carefully clean it up and discard it in a safe place. It is usually put in a brown paper bag that is doubled up to secure the pieces for trash pick up. 

God does something similar to those who are shattered in Spirit. He carefully cleans us up little by little with extra care, gently and lovingly, to ensure we are put back together, perfect in Spirit and healthy and whole in mind, and body! 

Now this process takes time and effort on your part as well. Nothing is impossible for God to do, but He needs a willing heart and mind, who is determined, fixed, and sincere about the journey - whereas, it will be well worth the fight in the end. God never loses a battle, so victory is yours, when you commit your ways to Him who satisfies and delivers! He makes our wrongs, right and our crooked paths straight! 

Job 5 AMPC 

Call now—is there any who will answer you? And to which of the holy [angels] will you turn?
2 For vexation and rage kill the foolish man; jealousy and indignation slay the simple.
3 I have seen the foolish taking root [and outwardly prospering], but suddenly I saw that his dwelling was cursed [for his doom was certain].
4 His children are far from safety; [involved in their father’s ruin] they are crushed in the [court of justice in the city’s] gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
5 His harvest the hungry eat and take it even [when it grows] among the thorns; the snare opens for [his] wealth.
6 For affliction comes not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring forth out of the ground.
7 But man is born to trouble as the sparks and the flames fly upward.
8 As for me, I would seek God and inquire of and require Him, and to God would I commit my cause—
9 Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,
10 Who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields,
11 So that He sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn He lifts to safety.
12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise or anything of [lasting] worth.
13 He catches the [so-called] wise in their own trickiness, and the counsel of the schemers is brought to a quick end.
14 In the daytime they meet in darkness, and at noon they grope as in the night.
15 But [God] saves [the fatherless] from the sword of their mouth, and the needy from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts her mouth.
17 Happy and fortunate is the man whom God reproves; so do not despise or reject the correction of the Almighty [subjecting you to trial and suffering].
18 For He wounds, but He binds up; He smites, but His hands heal.
19 He will rescue you in six troubles; in seven nothing that is evil [for you] will touch you.
20 In famine He will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
21 You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
22 At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the living creatures of the earth.
23 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
24 And you shall know that your tent shall be in peace, and you shall visit your fold and your dwelling and miss nothing [from them].
25 You shall know also that your children shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, and as a shock of grain goes up [to the threshing floor] in its season.
27 This is what we have searched out; it is true. Hear and heed it and know for yourself [for your good].

A closer view of the shattered glass

Job suffered great losses and sickness to his body, in addition to criticism from his friends, yet he maintained his hope in God and did not curse Him or turn away from God in the midst of all he endured. So when God came to Job and ask him why are you speaking on My behalf without full knowledge of who I Am; God opened Job’s eyes to all of His creations and His Power. (Job 38-41)

Job 42:1-3 AMPCThen Job said to the Lord,2 I know that You can do all things, and that no thought or purpose of Yours can be restrained or thwarted.3 [You said to me] Who is this that darkens and obscures counsel [by words] without knowledge? Therefore [I now see] I have [rashly] uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

When you read on, God blessed Job and gave him twice as much of what he had originally. And it goes on to say; "Job lived to the fourth generation; and died an old man , full of days." (Job 42:12-17) 

Job’s life was shattered, yet through his suffering and shame, his life was restored in excess because he did not give up because of the calamities, he stayed the course in spite of the calamities!