Broken for a Purpose

When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible man and breaks him.

Moses' lifeline:
1st 40 years of his life - learning to be somebody
2nd 40 years of his life - learning that he is a nobody
3rd 40 years of his life - discovering how God can use a nobody

King David was another individual that had to acknowledge his frailty, his sinfulness and be utterly broken by God in order for God to use him mightily.

Charles Spurgeon said, ‘We are but men, frail, feeble, and apt to faint.’ I am intrigued by the word ‘broken.’ It means, literally, to become 'crushed' and ‘shattered'. The sacrifice to God, according to Psalm 51:17, is a shattered spirit and a bruised heart. It is not until the pride of our sinful and selfish hearts is shattered utterly that we will begin to understand the deep things of God. The shattering and the bruising are so designed by God for the preparation of His servants. God will not despise a broken and contrite heart. All of God’s spiritual giants have been very weak and extremely broken men and women.

~ Gary Dozier

* Dearest Lord, please daily break, shatter and crush me completely - make me absolutely nothing in the sight of man..that in You alone i can find my everything..my All in all.. *

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

~ Psalm 51:17