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Encourage Others with My Life and Story Part 1

My wife and I recycle. I think God wants us to be environmentally conscientious and take care of this planet, and there are lots of ways we are discovering to do that, whether it’s lower emissions from cars, alternate fuel sources, or energy efficient light bulbs. And I believe that God sets the example by the way he’s always been into recycling.  

In fact, God is consumed with recycling. While it’s true he does love the planet, he loves the people on it a million times more. And what he will do, if we’ll let him, is to take all the garbage from our lives—all the nasty, smelly trash and all the toxic waste—and recycle it into something good. 

Like those creative people who go to flea markets, garage sales, and the scratch and dent section of furniture stores and turn broken and scarred junk into something incredible, God is really, really good at making the old into new, the wasted into purpose, and the dead alive. He can recycle the pain and garbage in your life into an incredible story that could help someone else’s life. God not only wants to save you, forgive you, heal you, restore you, change you, and guide you ... he wants to use you to bless others.

We all have amazing worth in God’s eyes. He created us, breathed life into us, and he put within every one of us a unique personality and unique gifts, so that we can make a difference in this world. Even though we can make a royal mess of our lives, if we will humble ourselves and let him go to work, God will recycle all that nasty stuff for good. No one is worthless. No one is useless. He wants to use your story to help other people.