I was in Dollar Tree last night, and there was a lady and two kids behind me in the LONG line. One was a big kid, and the other one was a toddler. The bigger one had a pack of glow sticks, and the toddler was screaming for them. The Mom opened the pack and gave him one which stopped his tears. He walked around with it smiling; but then the bigger boy took it, and the toddler started screaming again. Just as the Mom was about to fuss, the older child bent the glow stick and handed it back to the toddler. As we walked outside at the same time, the toddler noticed that the stick was now glowing; and his brother said, “I had to break it so that you could get the full effect from it.”
I almost ran, because l could hear God saying to me, “I had to break you to show you why I created you. You had to go through it so you could fulfill your purpose.”
That precious child was happy just swinging that “unbroken” glow stick around in the air, because he didn’t understand what it was created to do – which was “glow”.
There are some people who will be content just “being,” but some of us are chosen… we have to be “broken.”
We have to get sick.
We have to lose a job.
We go through a divorce.
We have to bury our spouse, parents, best friend, or our child…
In those moments of desperation, We were broken. But… when the breaking is done, then we will be able to see the reason for which we were created. So when you see us glowing, just know that we have been broken
My friend posted this on Facebook. I thought about how I discard things that are broken. But our Heavenly Father restores our sinful, broken life through Jesus Christ, who died on Calvary for our sins. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. When we believe and accept Jesus in our hearts, we are born again by the Holy Spirit. We are set free from our guilt, shame, and sin. All self-righteousness and pride are gone. We have been broken, as the story says. Then we can shine brightly for God.
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