The Upper Room Devotional 18 July 2024: Broken Crayons
The Upper Room Devotional 18 July 2024: Broken Crayons
Read and Study Today’s The Upper Room Daily Devotional for July 18th, 2024 Message. God bless you as you study today! Please share with your friends and loved ones.
Today’s Topic: Broken Crayons
Carol Harrison (Saskatchewan, Canada)
TODAY’S READING
Romans 12:1-8
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
God can redeem my brokenness.
The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. – Psalm 51:17 (NRSVUE)
At the end of each school year, my mom would put all the broken crayons from the classroom in a container for me to use at home. I never liked broken crayons, but those broken crayons still colored.
My granddaughter, Arianna, is an artist. For a project, she once took brand-new packs of crayons and broke them on purpose into different lengths. She then carefully arranged the pieces on a piece of wood until a picture emerged: a child’s hand and an adult’s joined together with a butterfly hovering above them. The beauty of the colors and the amount of work that went into the piece of art are apparent to all who view it.
God wants to make us new — to transform us. Even when we feel broken and useless, God still has a purpose for us. In Paul’s letter to the Romans, he urged them to offer their “bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God” and to “not be conformed to this age, but to be transformed by the renewing of the mind.” Just as broken crayons still color and can be repurposed into something beautiful, God can transform and redeem our brokenness.
TODAY’S PRAYER
Dear God, thank you for helping us to find new purpose even when we are broken. Transform us so that we may serve you well. Amen.
PRAYER FOCUS
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