The Joy of Antiques
For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. (Ps. 30:5 ESV)
People enjoy antiques. Those old bits of furniture, decorations, and nick-nacks that add such flavor and classiness to living-rooms, porches, and walls.
But think for a moment about what those antiques really are.
Antiques are old, broken, worn out things… that have somehow been fixed and made beautiful. There is something about them in fact, that is more beautiful than when they were new. When fixed and redecorated they are indeed something shiny and bright, but with an attachment to when they weren’t.
When it comes to furniture, antiques are richer than brand new.
When it comes to sentimental things, antiques have more connection than new things.
When it comes to you, too… the old broken you is what makes the Jesus-fixed you precious.
The purpose of being broken is being fixed. The reason we have problems is to enjoy the solution. The best thing about the night is not the darkness, but the dawn.
I’m an antique, and I will be an antique forever. While we know of the old nails and split wood, I am no longer broken. While we don’t forget yesterday’s brokenness, in Christ, we are fixed and made new.
And it is beautiful.