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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 and I certainly don’t keep God’s Word either.  Why would God want to use someone like me?  Even on my best day, my motives are suspect, my thoughts tend to go astray; I still end up in sin in some way."

I learned early on that Marine Corps bootcamp does not look for recruits who are "know it alls" or who are already great in their own minds and accomplishments.  Rather the USMC looks for some men and women that they could break and remake. That can remake you if you are not broken or willing to be broken.

But more than any other, our God uses broken things.  He is looking for those that have marred their pasts, those who have failed and have fallen short the mark.  He is looking for those who will allow God to take their brokeness and make something wonderful with it.  God can do that with you.

Pastor Mark Sage



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