The older we get the more we realize how little control we have over our career path and how dependent we are on God for literally everything ...everyday...and that apart from him we can do nothing.
Os Hillman in the excellent devotional below reminds us of the strength of brokenness. This post was taken in its entirety and can be found at http://thinkofthesethings.blogspot.com/2012/06/tgif1-strength-of-brokenness.html
The Strength of Brokenness
TGIF Today God Is First Volume 1, by Os Hillman
06-19-2012
"The bows of the warriors are broken, but those who stumbled are armed with strength." - 1 Samuel 2:4
There is an oxymoron throughout the Bible. It says that brokenness is
strength. How can this be? How can brokenness be strength? In order to
use men and women to their fullest extent, the Lord has to break His
servants so that they might have a new kind of strength that is not
human in origin. It is strength in spirit that is born only through
brokenness.
Paul was broken on the Damascus road. Peter was broken after Jesus was
taken prisoner. Jacob was broken at Peniel. David was broken after his
sin with Bathsheba. The list could go on of those the Lord had to break
in different ways before they could be used in the Kingdom.
When we are broken, we see the frailty of human strength and come to
grips with the reality that we can do nothing in our own strength. Then,
new strength emerges that God uses mightily. God resists the proud but
gives grace to the humble.
Do not fear brokenness, for it may be the missing ingredient to a life
that emerges with a new kind of strength and experience not known
before. Pray for a broken and contrite heart that God can bless.
Today God Is First (TGIF) devotional message, Copyright by Os Hillman, Marketplace Leaders.
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