When I was little, I went to a bible camp in the middle of nowhere Tennessee.  We would camp, canoe, rock climb, build camp fires, all of it. (I know, TC is an outdoors type person? haha hardly)  My least favorite part of the camp was always chapel.  We would have to put our exciting activities on hold to wait and listen to an adult talk a long time about Jesus.  I had accepted Christ at the age of 4 but had not completely taken it seriously.

I remember one time at chapel, the speaker told us that sin was completely and totally destructive.  He took a small alarm clock out of a bag and set it on stage.  He told us the clock represented our lives (the minutes and seconds we spend “living” each day).  Then he pulled out a sledge hammer and smashed the clock into pieces.  “Sin crushes our lives, and there is nothing we can do to put our life back together.  We need a Savior.  We need Jesus.”  These words hung with me until the next day.  We were in chapel again and the speaker held in his hand the destroyed clock, only he had taken his time to pick up all the pieces and put them back together.  The clock was in once piece and it worked!  In that moment, I realized: Jesus took the time to pick up the brokenness of my life and piece me back together.  Just like the broken clock, the cracks and bruises of my mistakes stay with me to remind me of the need for the Savior but my life still “ticks” because Jesus loved me enough to fix me.

Maybe you are feeling broken, hurt, pained, abandoned.  The only way to find peace, completion, restoration is in a relationship with Christ.

Colossians 1:20 - “Not only that, but all th broken and dislocated pieces of the universe - people,and things, animals and atoms - get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of His (Jesus) death, His blood that poured down the Cross.”

The only way to fix your life is to go to the one who created it.  Jesus wants to restore you, to give you hope, to give you future and purpose.  If you want restoration, then you have to give your life to Jesus, the Restorer.