Ages ago toys were made to last long enough for children to be able to play with them for quite a time. In days of old, hand-made toys might have lasted a lifetime. In more modern times, up to explosions in greed, toys would hold together at least long past Christmas. Now-a-days, we live in the era of the one-day toy; the present opened on Christmas morning or on one's birthday - if it was really good - made it through the day. Others became broken toys within the hour or hours after being opened.

According to Scriptures, people used to live 500 years, 700 years, 900 years or more. After Noah was 500 years old he became the father of Shem; he was six hundred years old when the flood waters covered the earth. After the flood Noah lived another 350 years. In toto, Noah lived some 950 years. Now-a-days we live on the average of between 60 - 90 years. If we do not come into life a visibly physically broken toy, we may end up being broken during life, not only physically but mentally. If we are not mentally broken upon birth, some can become so. If we do not become psychologically burnt out, that, as well can happen. Some, in their self-destructive behaviours, add to their brokenness when they perform for their peers by taking mind altering substances which can and have altered the minds of some so much so that their learning potential is affected, that their reasoning ability is mildly or radically diminished, that they have become permanatly demented or insane.

No matter what, though, the most broken toy among us may be the brightest of all, the healthiest of all, the wealthiest of all. Isn't that a paradox? Many who have everything do not have everything. Or, many who have everything in the world, have nothing in eternity. That is, if you don't have Jesus. In any case, one toy might be so broken as to think himself/herself a god, and thus never bow his/her knee to God. Perhaps you think of another as a god. If you worship a hockey star or a movie star or a celestial star, and not the Lord, you are a broken toy. If you worship your achievements, money, your position, you may be an eternally irreparably broken toy. But, if you, however, worship the Lord you God and none other before Him, you are a broken toy on the mend.

For every type of broken toy out there today, the Bible has one to match it. Saul of Tarsus, broken toy of the broken toys, thought that his murdering of Christians was what God wanted him to do. He learned on the road to Damascus just how broken a toy he was. In Acts 22:7, Saul, converted, and later healed, changed from a broken toy without a future to a broken toy on the mend. The broken toy not on the mend misses heaven.

Yes, if you have Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, you are still a broken toy, but you are a broken toy who is on the mend, one day to be made perfect in Jesus Christ. Until you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, you remain the eternally broken toy and, and until now, didn't even know it. Know the truth now that whereupon you die unsaved, you will go before Jesus to hear him say as he said in Matthew 7:23, "I DON'T KNOW YOU OR WHERE YOU COME FROM. AWAY FROM ME, ALL YOU EVILDOERS." Only then will you realize that you were a broken toy.

On the other hand, you can today accept Christ as your Lord and Savior and find comfort in Matthew 10:32 which reads as follows: "Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him/her before my father in heaven." Do that and become a broken toy on the mend.