Sometimes God Makes Us By Breaking Us!

God sometimes has to has to destroy us or what we think we are or what we think we are supposed to be in order that He may make us into what He wants us to be. God told Jeremiah that he needed "to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy" false ideas and customs, in order then "to build, and to plant" right ones.[Jeremiah 1:10] 

The rock in the desert had to be broken before the water could flow out to refresh the people.[Exodus 17:6] Even so we must be broken before God can use us. In fact, God only uses those who have been humbled, broken, melted, remolded and remade -- vessels which have been married in the hands of the Potter and broken, that He may make them better vessels. That's the story of everyone who is any good at all for God's work.

Like God said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.  So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.´" [Jeremiah 18:2-4]

But some of us want to be used just like we are. We do not want to be broken. That is one of the most tragic pictures in all human life: The picture of the man who says with "Invictus" -- "I am Captain of my fate, I am Master of my soul! My head is bloody but unbowed!" If the clay is soft and malleable it can be molded into a beautiful vessel, fit for the Master's use. But if it hardens and becomes brittle, it can only break and become crushed in the hands of the Potter.

God only uses humble and broken people. "Humble thyself therefore in the mighty hand of God and in due season He shall highly exalt thee."[1 Peter 5:6] For "God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble."[James 4:6] Sometimes we say, "Why have You made us like this?"[Romans 9:20] But the point is, if we give Him a chance, He will remake us! Draw nigh to God and trust that the breaking you are going through is part of your remaking process. God loves you and has good plans for you if you will yield yourself to Him!

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."[Jeremiah 29:13] "Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, unto Him be glory."[Ephesians 3:20-21a]