9.18- The Restoration Business

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The Restoration Business Philippians 3:1-8 Dennis Fisher Adam Minter is in the junk business. The son of a junkyard owner, he circles the globe researching junk. In his book Junkyard Planet, he chronicles the multibillion-dollar industry of waste recycling. He notes that entrepreneurs around the world devote themselves to locating discarded materials such as copper wire, dirty rags, and plastics and repurposing them to make something new and useful.

After the apostle Paul turned his life over to the Savior, he realized his own achievements and abilities amounted to little more than trash. But Jesus transformed it all into something new and useful. Paul said, “Whatever were gains to me I now consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I my gain Christ” (Philippians 3:7-8). Having been trained in Jewish religious law, he had been an angry and violent man toward those who followed Jesus (Acts 9:1-2). After being transformed by Jesus, the tangled wreckage of his angry past was transformed into the love of Jesus for others. (II Corinthians 5:14-17).

If you feel that your life is just an accumulation of junk, remember that God has always been in the restoration business. When we turn our lives over to Him, He makes us into something new and useful to Him and others.