My sister-in-law, Marge, ever the encourager, sent me a short devotion written by Joni Eareckson-Tada entitled Broken Cups. Joni broke her neck in a diving accident as a teenager and has been paralyzed ever since. Her examples of personal victory despite overwhelming challenges have impressed and inspired me time and time again over the years.
As I've re-read my last couple of posts I'm struck by how much I sound like a self-centered little baby. I study my Bible each morning and read of Moses, David, Paul and the countless other heroes of the faith who overcame odds so much greater than mine and I am humbled. I'm also convicted that it's time to stop whining and to get back to discovering the many ways in which I am being blessed.
Joni's Broken Cup musing demonstrates so well how God uses His "broken cups". It took breaking my life (my "earthen vessel") as I knew it and putting it back together again to open me up to seeing God with sharper, more focused vision, and what a gift that has been!
I may be broken today but The Potter is at work putting me back together again in a new and wonderful way. I am blessed!
"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels (cups that can be broken), that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not of ourselves."-2 Corinthians 4:7 (ASV).
"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise".-Psalm 51:17 (KJV).
On the health front:
Really, really, really tired but in better spirits!
Glad to have you back!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Christen...it's good to be back!
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