According to legend, Japanese shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa
sent a cracked chawan – or tea bowl – back to China to undergo repairs.
Upon it return, Yoshimasa was displeased to find that it had been mended
with unsightly metal staples. This motivated contemporary craftsmen to
find an alternative, aesthetically pleasing method of repair. This
method became known as Kintsugi.
An entry in
Wikipedia describes Kintsugi as the Japanese art of repairing broken
pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or
mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.
Through
Kintsugi, broken pieces of a ceramic object can be reconnected and
remade into a beautiful piece of art.
The art of
Kintsugi beautifully depicts what God can do with a broken life.
Our lives are
broken by sin, and “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
(Romans 3:23). But God loves us, and He desires to restore us and make
something beautiful and eternal of our lives (John 3:16; Romans 6:23).
The process
of restoration necessitated the death of God’s Son, Jesus, on the cross
to pay the price for our redemption from sin (Ephesians 1:7). When we
submit the broken pieces of our lives through our trusting obedience,
the Potter can restore and remake us into a beautiful object of grace
(Ephesians 2:8-10).
God will forgive, restore, and give
eternal life those who place their faith and trust in Jesus (Acts
16:30-31), turn from their sins in repentance (Acts 17:30-31), confess
Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are baptized (immersed) into
Christ for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38). He will continue to
“cleanse and make whole” those who continue to walk in the light of His
Word (1 John 1:7-9).
“Bring
Christ your broken life, So marred by sin,
He will create anew, Make whole again;
Your empty, wasted years He will restore,
And your iniquities Remember no more.”
-- Thomas O. Chisholm
-- David A.
Sargent
* Information gleaned from Wikipedia and
Kelly Richman-Abdou,
“Kintsugi: The Centuries-Old Art of Repairing Broken Pottery with
Gold,” My Modern Met, September 5, 2019, as quoted in
www.illustrationideas.bible.
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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