A Moment Aside for 20 April 2021

 A Moment Aside --- 20 April 2021

Having a bad day? We all have them. It takes nothing away from you to say that.

Do you feel broken? Again, at times we all do. As the picture above tells us “God uses broken things.” Earth has to be tilled to grow a crop. Clouds must burst to drop the rain. Grains are broken or crushed to make flour with which to make bread. A loaf of bread must be broken or cut and then eaten and digested to give strength and possibly growth.

So much in our lives must be broken, split, or crushed to be useable. Our lives are often the same. We know ourselves to be broken and God knows that as well. It is in that very brokenness that God is able to work. Perfection would stand alone and would not bend to do what must be done in this world.

I’ve been told that a broken bone, when set correctly, is stronger than it was before the break. I’ve been told that there is more room for another in a broken heart. I know that pain and suffering is a strict teacher and a true teacher for those who will listen and learn.

Look at the history of the church. The people in it have been and are broken. Many have failed and fallen down, but the Gospel goes on, carried by broken and limping people. Those broken and limping folks have found their strength and their healing in that Gospel. They can’t keep it to themselves; they need to share it with others because of what it has done for them. The broken help to carry the broken and God’s grace is found in that.

Don’t fear your own brokenness. We may have to lament it and possibly repent of it. We may have to bear it with us all our lives. That’s the sort of person God wants to carry the Good News because they know they have received it without being worthy of it.

In their limping, they know grace.