reshaping a life

I have an old trailer, that I am fixing up so it can be used again. It has been sitting in the back yard unused for several years now, mainly due to a bent tongue. The bend is not real bad just enough so it doesn't follow well. Once again I went to my farmer friend, as he has just about everything. I asked him if the we could straighten the tongue on my trailer. He wasn't sure as it was a channel piece, but he would try. He started with the simplest method, beating on it with a sledge hammer, but after several hits we knew it would take more force than we could supply with just a hammer. We took it to his press (good farmers have everything) and it helped it some but not enough. Since the piece was channel shaped bending on one side too much caused the other side to bend in a way we didn't want. His son suggested we put a straight piece inside the channel and use that to help shape it. Great idea! He found a scrap of iron just the right size to fit into the channel and keep it from collapsing (farmers keep everything, who knows when you might need it, they also have the room). The result, I now have a trailer I can pull when I get a trailer hitch. A disclaimer all these "we's" should be him. I merely watched and gave moral support. What do we do when our lives get bent out of shape? Just like that trailer with a bent tongue, we don't go in the direction we should if our lives are bent by sin. Our lives need to be reshaped to their original form, and the only form that works is Jesus. He is the one we need to wrapped around and be pressed against to conform to the proper shape. It took some force to straighten that metal tongue and it won't be easy to reshape us either, but it can be done. The strength to straighten the trailer was more than we had, but with the press it was possible. Likewise it will take the power of God to straighten us out. The good news is that He loves us enough to do whatever it takes. Thanks God