God uses broken things: broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength and broken people to do great things.
We have all been broken in some way, no matter what your path, no matter where you came from, no matter where you started, no matter where you finished, no matter how rich you are, how poor you are, everyone at some level has been broken.
That’s good news because as human beings, brokeness binds us greece telegram data together. It’s the one thing that we all have in common.
When we have faced that adversity and we have grown from it, is a story that we can tell other people. It’s something we have that’s part of us that we can share, and we can help other people with.
One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that there are a lot of people out there that are doing everything possible to avoid being broken, avoid adversity, and avoid even being bent.
They avoid pain and they shy away from obstacles. This is a mistake because adversity – being broken – is our greatest teacher. It is through the crucible of adversity that we become stronger.
Transformation
Sometimes we’re so broken that it transforms us. It changes us. We come back from that deep pain, different than who we were before.
This past week I stumbled on this quote passage from
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