BROKEN LIVES | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 24, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 45.

BROKEN LIVES.

God even seems to break them sometimes that they may become truly useful. At least he can use broken lives in his service just as well as the whole ones; indeed, it often appears as if men can never do much for God till they are "broken vessels." He chooses the weak things of this world that no flesh may glory.

We ought, therefore, never to be afraid of God's providences when they seem to break up our lives and crush our hopes, and even to turn us away from our chosen paths of usefulness and service. God knows what he wants to do with us, how he can best use us, and where and in what lines of ministry he would have us serve. When he shuts one door it is because he has another standing open for our feet. When he breaks our lives to pieces it is because they will do more for his glory and the world's good broken and shattered than whole.—Presbyterian.