Surrender
By Jon Walker
And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” Luke 22:19-30 (NIV)
In the Bible, when people totally surrender themselves to God, they’re often described as ‘broken.’
God uses broken things for his purposes. When our lives are broken before the Lord, his light is able to shine through us. It’s a divine principle: God takes us; he breaks us; he blesses us, and then he uses us.
A simple way to see this principle is during the miracle when Jesus fed the 5,000. He took the bread; he broke it; he blessed it, and then he used it.
Jesus is the supreme example of this brokenness. In the Garden of Gethsemane, he said, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done” (Luke 22:42, NIV).
When you experience a personal Gethsemane, you’re moved toward the depths of faithfulness, certain God is on the other side of your faith, and that makes you willing to say, “Not my will, but your will be done.”
This is a statement of oneness, you’re heart becoming one with the Father’s. Bob Pierce, founder of World Vision, says it this way: “Let my heart be broken with the things that break the heart of God.”
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