God uses our brokenness

     A couple of weeks ago, I was ordained as a minister. The part that I was looking forward to the most was the anointing part. This was not your normal anointing where you just put a little oil on the head, but the Arron the priest type, where you pour lots of oil onto the head and let it run down over the body (Ps. 133:2). The plan was for a gallon of oil to be poured into a metal vase, we bought for this purpose, and have the pastor pour it over my head. but when the time came to fill the vase, we quickly realized that the vase had leaks in the bottom of it. but the Pastor was quick on his feet and had my Mother and sister hold the vase over my head as my Father poured the oil into the vase, while the pastor laid hands on my head and prayed for me. It was the perfect picture of how God the Father used Christ's broken body to cover me and make me worthy to serve him. Then the pastor took the oil that had gotten on his hands from my anointing and took the hands of two ladies that would be serving God with me and prayed with them. Showing how they would be blessed through my brokenness and anointing.

     We often do not realize that God can use our brokenness to serve and minister to others. To us, this makes no sense. But Paul said, "God has chosen the foolish things of this world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of this world to shame the things which are mighty"(I Cor. 1:27). Why? God knows that if someone is struggling with a certain problem such as a drug addiction that someone who has been there and been helped by Christ is the best person to help them deal with it. That is why Paul said,"To the weak, I became weak that I might win the weak...This I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker of it with you"(I Cor. 9:22-23).

     So you see, through our brokenness and testimony of how God has brought us through that we can help others. So don't hide your testimony, but use it and your brokenness to the glory of God (I Cor.1: 31).