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This week Pastor Jimmy brings out a point in a well known scripture that few have every focused on. It concerns healing. I think you will like this.

Even a remnant...

My Mother-In-Law was a seamstress. She could make anything with a needle and thread. She could make you a 3 piece suit out of wool that would look like it came from the most expensive stores. She could make any dress you could imagine, and she could do it without a pattern to go off of. Mend it, or make it from scratch, there was nothing that she could not do. She was amazing.

In the process of creating something for her clients, or just for the people that she loved, there would always be a little bit of scrap material left over. They are more commonly called remnants. These remnants would accumulate on the floor, where they would be trampled underfoot for days by her and any who entered her shop. After a while, the remnants would pile up to the point that she would have to pick them up.

By now they were dirty, filthy pieces of garment not good for anything except the dumpster out back. But she just could not part with them. She simply could not let them go. Even these little bits of dirty and dusty nothing where good for something, she would say to those that asked why she would choose to save them.

Loaded into a white garbage bag, they would sit forgotten in the corner for the longest time. So now they were dirty, forgotten bits of useless material sitting in a garbage bag in an out of the way corner.

Then one day, seemingly out of the blue, you would walk into her shop and those garbage bags would be scattered about her feet as she calmly sowed away while singing softly to some song on the radio. A week later and those dirty, forgotten bits of nothing, were assembled together into the most beautiful quilt you ever saw.

Now, that they were properly assembled together by the hands of a loving creator that possessed a clear vision of their potential, they were amazing to behold. They were priceless.

She never sold a single one of those quilts. Instead, they went to someone as a gift. A gift that was treasured by person that she gave them to, and coveted by everyone else that saw it.

A priceless and precious creation from a garbage bag of discarded remnants.

This morning, I picked up my iPhone and opened my bible app that gives me a verse of the day. It popped up a scripture from the little read book of Micah.

Micah 7:18 Where is another God like you who pardons the guilt of the remnant, overlooking the sins of His special people? You will not stay angry with your people forever, because You delight in showing unfailing love.

You may be a remnant, but you are loved. You may be a remnant, but you have purpose. You may be a remnant, but in the hands of the creator, you are a priceless treasure.

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Jimmy Beltz

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