Damaged goods are a part of every grocery store’s aisle.
They are items that are set aside that nobody wants to buy, tagged with a reduced price but still no one wants to give them a try.
Why are they labeled "damaged goods"? Because a label has been ripped from the front or a can’s sides have been punched?
You may find a box with a whole in it or a bag that is busted.
It could be a jar without a lid or a glass bottle which has been chipped or broken by accident.
Not intentionally dropped but just so happened to have fallen from the delivery truck.
All- in- all no one wants damaged goods even if they are orange tagged and sold for a buck.
But we pass by them and look and stare.
Barely going up to them to see what’s really in there.
I know, believe me, they’re not really eye-catching and they look second hand.
A damaged good is never part of our shopping plans.
We even frown at them sometimes and say why did they put this on the shelf?
These items look bad and are in need of some help.
Yet the contents that are on the inside are the same of those that sit on the next shelf, which sometimes requires you to look spiritually at yourself.
Was your character label ever ripped off and you were placed some where that you didn’t belong?
Were your fleshly sides punched by words that left you feeling numb?
Had you been dropped by some hands that you thought would get you safely to your destination yet found your emotions fallen to the ground in sudden desperation.
Most of us can say we’ve experienced one or all of the above when we were placed on the grocery shelf of life not knowing God’s love.
Until one day He passes by the aisle of your life and you look up from your damaged condition.
Trying to wipe yourself off but you are bruised and leaking.
You are embarrassed of the state that the Lord sees you in, yet He goes over and places you in his cart of care and you are rung up for a price that only He can bear.
Taken what is on the inside and making it all new.
You are no longer damaged, but GOOD and product of God’s which holds greater value.
