December 28, 2025
Broken things. God uses broken things. God is in the
business of breaking and remaking. Moses had to smash the rock before the
waters of refreshing could pour forth and revive the people. David had to fall
from the pinnacle of fame and success in order that God remake him into a
better vessel, a more broken vessel, a more compassionate vessel, so that he
could be called a nursing father.
Moses was the meekest of all men. Moses had a stammer. But
God took that weak and broken vessel and used it to transform a nation. But it
took years of breakings. 40 years in the wilderness taking care of his father-in-law’s
sheep until his ear was tuned to hear the still small voice of God, and his
heart was submitted enough to obey by faith and do what the voice was
indicating.
Over and over again in the Bible we see that God uses broken
and yielded vessels, but the rich and the proud He sends away empty. Despise
not the days of little broken things. God is in the business of taking broken
things and remaking them into more useful vessels, perhaps, less beautiful in
the eyes of the world, but useful in His service.
Think of Franny Crosby, Hellen Keller, George Washington
Carver, and the many other handicapped or underprivileged people, God has used
to show that God resides in the presence of a humble heart, a broken life. The
Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart and saves such as be of a
contrite spirit. The sacrifices of the Lord are of a broken spirit, a broken
and contrite heart, O God, You shall not despise.
He takes the solitary and sets them in families. He has put
down the mighty and has exalted them that are of low degree. For the High and
Holy One that dwells in eternity, whose name is Holy, lives in the High and
Holy place, and with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to
revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Be broken. Let God take you and remake you and shake you and bake you, until you come out a finer vessel, more fit for the Master’s use.
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