repairing the repairer

repairing the repairer, towing the tower.

no, it's not a new saying. but it can be :) on my way to kyrugma office today, i saw one of the most eye-catching sights: a broken down tow-truck at the side of the road, being repaired and fixed onto another tow-truck. i know i should have more compassion, but it IS something i have never seen before - a towtruck getting ready to be towed!

immediately i felt God bring to my mind that sometimes we overlook the reality of us who 'repair' others can also be in need of repair. for this, i mean specifically God's church. it will take a breakdown or a ceasing of progress for us to see we have not moved as the church should move. when the tow-truck isn't functioning, it then has to rely on another of its kind. many of us need the humility to admit that at times what we're doing just isn't working anymore, that we need another who is in working order to get us out of the rut. i thought of pastors who have long run out of steam but don't recognize their need. i thought of us servants of God who are in danger of total failure because we are reluctant to revamp and reoil our engines (in the manner of speaking, since we're talking about vehicles here) - be it personal life or Body life. why? maybe change frightens us. but it's either regress or progress. and the church as we know it is regressing.

everybody needs towing sometimes, even the tower. and for many things in life, if you're not willing to see it and drive-in voluntarily for maintenance, then sooner or later you will have to face the reality, you are either in a dire condition or going to just dwindle to nothing. it's an eventual thing.

and so as i reflected it was a reassurance, like God is saying to me this is a time of repairing, of renovating, of revamping. you will see the new things i am doing, and you have felt its approaching. it's time to be towed and shown the way by those i have brought onto your path to shed some light and prepare you for the greater journey ahead, that you can move ahead with renewed purpose and energy and bringing change even afterwards and gather the people with strength of conviction and clarity of vision.

personally, it is time for me to come to a complete halt and allow God to tow me (pardon the pun). sure been a long time coming, but earlier timing wasn't right - now it is.

Pass through, pass through the gates!
Prepare the way for the people.
Build up, build up the highway!
Remove the stones.
Raise a banner for the nations.
~ Isaiah 62:10 (a word from elizabeth after last Sat's EC)

sometimes...
unless you take a drastic step, you may stay status quo for always.
unless you shake out of your box, you may be stuck in your perspective.
so get towed!