Broken and Unfit for Service?

 

Feel broken? Feel you are unfit for service for Jesus?

Max Lucado reminds us:

   "God does great things through brokenness. Broken eggs give life. Broken skies give rain. Broken soil gives crops. Broken crayons still color. Broken alabaster jars give fragrance. The broken body of Christ on the cross is the light of the world.

Which is precisely the point. God does great things through the greatly broken. It's not the strength of the vessel that matters. It's the strength of the One who can use it.

You are not the sum of your sins. You are the sum of Jesus' death, burial and resurrection. You are as righteous as Jesus. (2 Corinthians 5:15 -- 'For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.')

You 'give off a sweet scent rising to God, which is recognized by those on the way to salvation -- an aroma redolent with life' (2 Corinthians 2:15).

Remember, God uses broken people to build His Kingdom! It's not the condition or strength of the vessel that matters -- it's the strength and power of the One who is using it!

(The Bible gives so many examples: David, an adulterer and murderer; Jacob, a liar and deceiver; Paul, a persecutor of the early Christians...and you can put your on this list, too! Not what I was, but who I am now and what I will be!)