GOD USES THE BROKEN Psalm 31:9-12 9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.* Have you ever felt like the Psalmist did in this passage? Have you ever felt like you could not go on and that you were forever destined to failure especially concerning spiritual things. Perhaps you have asked yourself: "Why would God want to use someone like me? I don’t come from any good family line or a claim of fame; I have no riches; I offer no amazing things to this world; I live paycheck to paycheck, I am a sinner of the worst kind; I don’t keep my word like I should a