The Broken Things of Life

There is a beautiful story of a child who was late coming home one day. She was met at the door by her mother who was frantic from worry. "Where have you been?" shouted the mother almost in tears. "Suzie was crying because her doll was broken, so I stopped to help her," was the little girl's reply.
The mother was beginning to calm down some, and she asked, "Did you help her fix her doll?"
"Oh, no, mother. I helped her cry."
Vance Havner writes: "God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever."
What is broken about your life? It may be something that can be truly repaired and made whole if only you will let God use His power and mend it with the Holy Spirit of His eternal love.

Mid-Week Prayer
Let us pray: Eternal and gracious God. We come to you this day with the weakness of our live showing forth from our shattered shells.
Will you please help us realize that there is power in the problems of our lives? We are not alone, but there is a promise to be made whole if we would only confess that we can no longer be the glue that binds our brokenness together.
Give us the strength to come to you in the glory of Your power as we are given a whole life, now and forever, in the blessed name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

This has been Rev. Jim Massey. Next week we will share another epistle in our walk together. Join me then.