My Cellphone is Broken

Broken Cellphone

"What are you doing?" Kim asked with a quizzical look on her face. 

"I'm trying to get this stinkin' cellphone to work!" I exclaimed as I pounded on the keys with my finger.  Alas, in my frustration, it was obvious that the phone wasn't working properly.

"Why don't you call and get a new phone?  We've got the insurance protection," she responded.

"I've tried.  They have me do little technical adjustments to it and try it.  Nothing they've had me do to it really works for long," I replied.

"Sounds like you need a new phone to me," she answered.

"I think you're right.  The one that I have is definitely broken," I sighed.

It's a difficult thing to admit that our cellphone is broken even after we've tried countless strategies that don't work.  Customer service will have us try countless technical strategies to fix it, but when it's broken there's no fixing it. 

Funny thing, the same is true with our lives.  We can walk around in various states of brokenness, trying different strategies that we are told will do the trick for us.  We try everything to bring healing to our cracked situation.  In the end, we end up frustrated and still broken. 

Jesus offers to bring true healing and newness to our fractured existence.  Paul tells us in 2Corinthians 5:17; this means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

If you've tried everything to get your life pulled together and it is still obvious that there are major problems, I encourage you to give Jesus a try.  He will pour His love and grace into your world in abundant measure and help you to live a new life filled with His Spirit.  He will guide and direct you if you'll only let Him.  Only He can bring true healing and wholeness.

Now, where is the phone number for customer service?  I've got to get me a new cellphone because mine is obviously broken.