Communion Meditations

God uses broken things. Broken soil to produce a crop,

broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread,

broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster

box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly,

who returns to greater power than ever.

- Vance Havner, Leadership, Vol. 4, no. 1

Self-condemnation and gloom block God's way to us, Manning says. "The key is to let yourself be loved in your brokenness. Let the focus of your inner life rest on one truth, the staggering, mind-blowing truth that God loves you unconditionally as you are and not as you should be. Because nobody is as they should be."

- Brennan Manning

Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live in sin, on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth.

- Randy Alcorn

Only those who are no longer consumed with finding satisfaction now are able to love. Only when we commit our yearnings for perfect joy to a Father we have learned to deeply trust are we free to live for the others despite the reality of a perpetual ache.

- Larry Crabb, "Inside Out"

"Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him."

- Oswald Chambers