Nothing Wasted

Such waste there is in our world! Trash bins overflow with half-eaten food. Landfills are heaped with old appliances, furniture, and bags of garbage. Computers and electronics, outdated by new advancements, are just tossed away. Perfectly good food is thrown out at the expiration date, and outdated clothing is tossed in the trash.

God's creation is one of efficiency. Consider the food chain. When an animal dies in the wild, other species come along and eat it. When that animal or insect dies, something else eats it. The leftover waste from digestion sustains other life forms or nourishes the soil to grow plants needed for food by yet other species. Nothing is wasted.

Jesus dealt with leftovers. "Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to his disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all. They all ate and were satisfied. And the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish. The number of the men who had eaten was five thousand." Mark 6: 41-44 NIV

How like Him to gather up the fragments. Does God ever waste anything? He takes our mistakes and turns them into lessons, restores wasted years and lives with His gift of salvation, takes our heartaches and uses them for His glory, gathers broken people and makes them whole, and even collects our tears (Psalm 56:8).

How comforting to know that God will never put us through one unnecessary minute of struggle, that every hard time will eventually be changed to good, and that each day of our life has reason and purpose. You can believe it: He doesn't waste anything.

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Contributed by Candace Simar: simar@tds.net Candace is a freelance writer from Pequot Lakes, MN. Her work has appeared in Dust & Fire, Lake Country Journal, Talking Stick, Talking 7th Street Blues, Country Echo, and Home Health Care Nurse Journal.