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October 19, 2020 8:00 pm
In the Netherlands, a group of fashion designers offer a “Golden Joinery” workshop. Inspired by the Japanese technique Kintsugi, where broken porcelain is visibly repaired with gold, participants collaborate in mending clothes in ways that highlight the mending work rather than trying to mask it. Those who are invited bring “a dear but broken garment and mend it with gold.” As they remake their clothes, the repair becomes ornament, a “golden scar.”
Articles of clothing are transformed in ways that highlight the places where they were torn or frayed. Perhaps this is something like what Paul meant when he said that he would “boast” in the things that showed his weakness. Although he’d experienced “surpassingly great revelations,” he doesn’t brag about them (2 Corinthians 12:6). He is kept from getting proud and overconfident, he says, by a “thorn” in his flesh (v. 7). No one knows exactly what he was referring to—perhaps depression, a form of malaria, persecution from enemies, or something else. Whatever it was, he begged God to take it away. But God said, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (v. 9).
Just as the rips and tears in old clothes can become sites of beauty as they are remade by designers, the broken and weak places in our lives can become places where God’s power and glory may shine. God holds us together, transforms us, and makes our weaknesses beautiful.
And welcome to another daily encouragement from your daily devotional.
Today's reading titled Golden skies was written by Amy Peterson in the Netherlands, a group of fashion designers offer a golden joinery workshop inspired by the Japanese technique can CD were broken porcelain is visibly repaired with gold participants collaborate in mending clothes in ways that highlight demanding work, rather than trying to mask it. Those who are invited bring a deer broken garment and mend it with gold as they remake their clothes. The repair becomes ornamental a golden scar. Articles of clothing are transformed in ways that highlight the places where they were torn afraid. Perhaps this is something like what Paul meant in second Corinthians 12, when he said he would post in the things that showed his weakness, although he did experience surpassingly great revelations, he doesn't brag about them is kept from getting proud and overconfident. He says by a thorn in his flesh. No one knows exactly what he was referring to perhaps depression a form of malaria persecution from enemies or something else. Whatever it was he begged God to take it away.
But God said in verse nine. My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness just as the rips and tears and old clothes can become sites of beauty as they are remade by designers.
The broken places in our lives and become places where God's power and glory shine. He holds us together transforms us and makes our weaknesses.
Today Our Daily Bread devotional Scripture reading is from second Corinthians chapter 12 verses one through 10. I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained. I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. I know a man in Christ who 14 years ago was caught up to the third heaven, whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know God knows and I know that this man, whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. I will post about a man like that but I will not boast about myself except about my weaknesses, even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool because I would be speaking the truth but I refrain so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, or because of the surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me, but he said to me, my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses and insults and hardships and persecutions and difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Let's pray dear God, thank you that we can come to you in our brokenness and for accepting us and letting us just the way we are all of our scars live as evidence of your goodness and healing in our lives.
It's in Jesus name we pray.
Amen. Today's encouragement was provided by Our Daily Bread ministries
