In the early years of the 21st century, the Central Plains of the United States, from Ohio through Texas, experienced a spate of minor earthquakes. Some were so strong that cracks formed in people’s walls.
These earthquakes seemed to be linked to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumping water in the ground to break up rock in order to extract oil.
Many homeowners found out that spackle is a homeowner’s best friend.
Why spackle? This mysterious and fascinating mud smooths out cracks and flaws, and handled properly, leaves our walls looking like new once again.
It’s the same thing God does to our lives when we find our way back to him.
Psalms 60:2 says:
“You have made the earth to tremble; you have broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shakes.”
The great poet is pleading to God, “Please spackle our walls back into perfection. We’ve fractured our foundations, and the resulting earthquakes have damaged our lives, families, finances, and spiritual well-being. Please fix us up again.”
Is a spackled wall ever as good as the original? Not really, just as a life broken and put back together by God will always reveal the damage that once was if we chip away at the repairs. What we can do is use our spackling to improve what was there before. Rather than just smoothing over the damaged place, let’s add crown molding, fresh wallpaper, and even a window or two. Then let’s upgrade the windows and the plumbing. Pretty soon, the repairs we made will become character marks that make our home more interesting and beautiful than ever.
When God spackles our cracks, that’s exactly what he does for us. We become old-home beautiful, the turn-of-the-century mansion where people say, “They don’t build them like that anymore.”
That’s truer than they know. The truth is that men never built them like that. Only God did, and when he fixes us up, we become better than we were before. It’s not that the damage isn’t still there. It’s the magnificence that overshadows it that makes all the difference in the world.
When God is our contractor, he makes sure the repairs are done right.
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Originally Published 11-03-15 in Hope