Apparently, that statement is true on a commercial level, too.

Craig Brian Larson states: “In the United States, businesses use millions of wood pallets each year to haul products.  After a pallet has borne heavy, sometimes crushing weights and taken abuse from truck travel and forklifts, eventually it can no longer be used.  Now cracked and smashed, or loose and floppy, pallets are something businesses must pay other companies up to five dollars per pallet to dispose of.  Disposal companies burn the pallets, chew them into wood chips, or dump them in landfills.

One nonprofit company in New York had a better idea, writes Andrew Revkin in the New York Times.  Big City Forest in South Bronx takes other companies' junk and turns it into treasure.  The raw material of pallets is valuable hardwoods like rosewood, cherry, oak, mahogany, and maple.  Big City Forest workers dismantle the pallets, salvage the usable wood, and recycle it into furniture and flooring.  Recycled wood chips are worth only $30 a ton.  But when used as flooring, the value of the recycled wood is $1,200 a ton, and as furniture, $6,000 a ton.” *

Consider Larson’s application to humanity: “If that is what can be done with lifeless wood, how much more can people be restored to lives of value.  Like Big City Forest, God is in the business of restoration.  He takes people that seem worthless, people broken by the weight of sin, and transforms them into works of beauty and usefulness.” *

“Something beautiful, something good
All my confusion He understood
All I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife
But He made something beautiful of my life.”
-- Bill Gaither, Something Beautiful

God will reclaim and make something beautiful and lasting (eternal) of those lives who will submit their lives to Him: placing their faith and trust in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31) Who died on the cross for our sins (1 John 4:9-10), turn from sins in repentance (Acts 17:30-31), confess Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are baptized (immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38).  He will continue to cleanse from sin those who continue to walk in the light of His Word (1 John 1:7-9).

The Apostle Paul described “God’s Redemption Plan”: “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:8-10).

Won’t YOU allow God to “make something beautiful” of your life by accepting His offer of grace and eternal life through your trusting obedience?