Broken

eDevotion

Encouragement for your daily walk with God

Broken: fractured or damaged and no longer in working order

Brokenness: totally subdued; humbled; weakened and infirmed; crushed by grief

There have been times in my life when I have been broken and/or in a state of brokenness. I know that I’m not alone in feeling that way. Israel’s Kind David felt that way, and even expressed it in Psalm 31:12b, “I have become like a broken vessel.” There is no doubt that Peter felt that way after denying Christ three times on the night before His crucifixion. He fled Christ’s presence and wept bitterly. 

In those times, you may think that you are useless and unwanted by God. Nothing could be farther from the truth. 

Vance Havner wrote:

"God uses broken things. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is the broken soil that produces a crop; it is the broken clouds that give rain; it is the broken grain that gives bread, and it is the broken bread that gives strength. . . . God uses broken things."

Broken! It's not bad to find yourself in that condition; after all . . . God uses broken things.