Men Write-Off: God Redeems

When I was rear-ended in a car accident a few years ago, I didn't need an insurance agent to tell me it was a complete write-off.  Being an older car, I could see the damage sustained from boot to bonnet would have cost triple the value of the vehicle to fix.  After the insurance company paid out on the car, it probably ended up in some junkyard for spare parts or was used for scrap.  Once a car is written-off, it is a concession the damage is too great or costly to fix.  One could say Humpty Dumpty after his fall was a write-off, for all the king's horses and men were unable to put him back together again.  There is a point where well-meaning people do their best to fix problems, but there comes a time where man reaches or exceeds his limit.  He throws up his hands in frustration or grief, gives up, and tries to cut his losses.

God is not like a man that He should give up.  There is no limit to His power or resources.  When men have long since given up all hope of restoration, God continues in His loving way.  While man looks to cut his losses by salvaging tyres and rims to sell on Ebay from a vehicle that has been written-off, God seeks to redeem and restore to a point before sin.  Think of all the lives of people who were once written-off by others as lost causes headed for hell that God redeemed and saved through faith in Jesus Christ!  How many broken relationships have been restored, bodies miraculously healed, and broken minds renewed by His goodness and grace!  If a man will admit he is ruined and desperate for God's help no matter the cost, God will do a supernatural work in that person.  Instead of a life headed for the scrap heap, God restores that life with parts better than the original.  In place of a heart of stone He provides a heart of flesh.  We have all sinned and fallen short of God's glory, but when we repent and trust in Jesus we are born again and made new.

Eyes of people are opened to the sickly state of the planet, government, society, and relationships, but that doesn't mean we can fix the problem ourselves.  Even when all the king's best men put their heads together, there was no fixing Humpty.  The truth is, only God is able to redeem and restore.  Only God is able to make new.  He has a plan of redemption laid out in the Bible, the price paid with the shed blood of His beloved Son, Jesus Christ.  It is written in Revelation 21:5, "Then He who sat on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." And He said to me, "Write, for these words are true and faithful."  God is true and faithful, and we don't need to settle for a refurbished earth or a life pieced together like a car with a salvage title:  God redeems and makes new.  Don't write off what God can make new!