Nothing Missing…Nothing Broken
Dear friends,
I feel strongly to share this with you all. There are times we look back at our lives to just take inventory concerning events or how life has turned out to be. For some, we are very proud of our accomplishments and accolades. If you fall into this category, I celebrate with you and wish you more. The best is still yet to come.
However, I want to speak to those who look back and there is nothing to show for it. Instead, there is so much heart ache and sorrow, with events that never ever want to be remembered. You feel that there is no reason or meaning in life. You do not want to remember the past because it has eaten a great deal of your life and made you hopeless and redundant.
I hear these words echo loudly…NOTHING MISSING…NOTHING BROKEN. Genesis 37-50 records the story of Joseph, the son of Jacob. He was kidnapped by his envious brothers and sold into slavery, accused of rape, imprisoned and suffered much pain, but God was not done with him. God used his horrible life experience to bring about one of the greatest testimonies of redemption ever told. God made him the most powerful man in Egypt next to Pharaoh.
God says he is not finished with you yet. Please hang in there. He is turning your test to a testimony and your mess to a message. Something great is about to happen.
This is for specially for you from Joel 2:25-27
I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten—the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm—my great army that I sent among you. You will have plenty to eat, until you are full, and you will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has worked wonders for you; never again will my people be shamed. Then you will know that I am in Israel, that I am the Lord your God, and that there is no other; never again will my people be shamed.
Let me tell you a story. Each day, a farmer passed a small piece of land to fetch water at the river, on the other side of the small village. He carried two water pots; one on his right and the other on his left. The pot on the right was whole and perfect, while the other pot was broken. On each journey from the river, the perfect pot delivered its full portion of water satisfactorily to the farmer’s house, while the broken pot delivered only a quarter of its portion.
One day, the broken water pot cried out to the farmer, “Why not just dispose of me? I am useless. All these years, I have not served you like the other pot that has delivered water to the house. Instead, I constantly fail you. Dispose of me!” To that, the farmer replied, “My wonderful broken pot, you are perfect to me. You may not look like the other perfect pot but I have a reason for not disposing of you. Take a look at the small piece of land we pass by each day. Can you see the beautiful flowers? It is because of you they blossom and multiply. Each time we pass by, the water from your brokenness feeds them, and they grow. The other pot delivers water to the house wholly but your purpose is different.”
There is something about you that God wants to use. Hear these words…NOTHING MISSING…NOTHING BROKEN.
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