“And the God of grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself make you strong, firm and steadfast. To Him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.” — I Peter 5:6-11 (NIV)
Whenever my toddler son needed something fixed, he took it to his daddy. They often went downstairs to the workshop. The workshop held promise of restoration. With glowing eyes, he watched enthralled while his daddy made repairs.
“Daddy fixed it, Momma!” He offered a mended toy for my approval.
One evening I was rubbing his back. His body, still warm from his bath, lay across my lap in a cherished moment of quiet. He lifted his head.
“Are you fixin’ your boy?”
“I sure am. I’m fixin’ my boy.”
“You needs to take me down to the workshop and fix him in the workshop.”
Oh, that it were that simple. That I could take him to his daddy’s workshop and fix any broken part of him, any of his pain. Yet I know there is a workshop—God’s workshop for the soul. I have often gone there longing to be fixed. When the battle rages, Spirit against flesh, I have gone there needing help and encouragement.
It is the workshop of God’s Word, full of promise.
When I read “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you , than he that is in the world,” (1 John 4:4), I feel like my son who depended on his daddy to fix his toys. I feel my heavenly Father fixing me. He loosens my dependence on my strength and gives me courage to depend on His.
“Remember, my child,” He seems to say when I read Hebrews 12:1-3, “all those who have gone before you. Though they were weak like you, they did not let go of their faith. They surround you like a cloud — a cloud of witnesses to My power. So throw off everything that hinders you and the sin that so easily entangles, and run the race I have marked out for you. Run it with perseverance. Fix your eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith. Never forget that, for the joy set before Him, He endured the cross, scorned its shame, and sat down at the right hand of My throne. When you consider Him who endured such opposition, you will not grow weary and lose heart.”
As I ponder the promises in the workshop of His Word, I praise Him for taking me down to His workshop and fixin’ me.
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Comments on: "Fixin’ My Boy" (4)
This is so precious. Thank you for the reminder from your personal experience and from God’s own Word. Thanks also for writing this blog, it is always poignant.
The Word is the very best workshop!
Sweet moment with your son. And I love those verses from Hebrews that speak of the great crowd of witnesses watching us run our race and cheering us on.
Indeed, how can we lose heart when there are many who have gone before!