GOD BLESSES WHAT WAS BROKEN
© 2013 Diana Rasmussen
I refuse to be bound by my past,
I will not be defined by your label.
Only God knows the road I’ve traveled,
God blesses what was broken.
All things work together for good,
‘Cuz I am called and chosen.
Nothing will be wasted or thrown away,
God blesses what was broken.
Sometimes I’m the kid with a brown bag lunch,
Only 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish.
I give it to Jesus, suddenly things are changed.
God blesses what was broken.
He gathers the pieces left over,
He lets nothing be wasted.
All things will work out for good,
‘Cuz God blesses what was broken.
© 2013 Diana Rasmussen
GOD’S PROMISE TO YOU:
Hosea put it well:
I’ll call nobodies and make them somebodies;
I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved.
In the place where they yelled out, “You’re nobody!”
they’re calling you “God’s living children.”
Isaiah maintained this same emphasis:
If each grain of sand on the seashore were numbered
and the sum labeled “chosen of God,”
They’d be numbers still, not names;
salvation comes by personal selection.
God doesn’t count us; he calls us by name.
Arithmetic is not his focus. (Romans 9:25-28 MSG)
Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.” (1 Corinthians 1:26-31 MSG)
Jesus got them all to sit down in groups of fifty or a hundred—they looked like a patchwork quilt of wildflowers spread out on the green grass! He took the five loaves and two fish, lifted his face to heaven in prayer, blessed, broke, and gave the bread to the disciples, and the disciples in turn gave it to the people. He did the same with the fish. They all ate their fill. The disciples gathered twelve baskets of leftovers. More than five thousand were at the supper. (Mark 6:39-44 MSG)
MY PRAYER FOR YOU:
Thank you Lord, that you pick up what the world does not want. We knew we didn’t belong here; we never fit in. You know what our lives look like, the “breaking” that we have been through. Have mercy upon us and bless us Lord in the broken parts – crazy, unmerited, bountiful blessings… Let our blessings overtake us, so much that we cannot contain them. Fill all those around us and let there be leftovers, in Jesus’ Name!
This is a beautiful blog and an important message – i love the quote i saw that said “damaged people are dangerous, they know they can survive” – i certainly would not want to go through all the years of pain again BUT i am grateful for the work they have done in me – I really like who i am as a result of having endured them – I am strong and secure and filled with joy – I have learnt to trust the love of God and am able to pass on to others the compassion I have been shown – NO they were NOT wasted years!! http://www.thetiltedroom.wordpress.com
Beautifully said my friend, thank you! Nope, nothing is wasted!
Absolutely beautiful… Great post. Words of wisdom… “We didn’t belong here…we never fit in”… Wow! So true. As we look back over our lives, those words are so fitting. Many of us never fit in. God has plans for us that are much greater than we can imagine, Sister. Thanks for the awesome post and God bless you my friend…
God bless you too Angel! It makes sense now, but it didn’t in the beginning.
No, it never makes since while we are in the midst of our loneliness, shame, guilt, and all those things that the enemy does to us. Thank God that He rescues and has plans for us that are bigger than we can even imagine… from brokenness to wholeness.
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I posted this in February, yet I feel the need to share it again. Does that mean I am talking to myself? lol!
Such a great article. it made my day.I’m broken but blessed!Amen..
Such an inspiring article.It made my day.I’m broken but blessed.Glory to God!
Thank you beautiful, me too! 🙂
For most of my life I struggled with a inferior self perception. Your words remind me of how much God loves me and what he had to do to break me of this bondage. Thank you.
Thank you too beautiful. I’m with you, God is amazing!
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No matter what a waste you think your life is remember God loves to transform the broken pieces into something beautiful. This post beautifully speaks to this depth of God’s love.
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Thank you Red, and God bless you!
Thank you for the reminder that we are all here because or Maker’s will… He knit us together in our mother’s womb… how easily I forget that I have a purpose … Thanks for your heart!
Beautiful, Diana. Resonated deeply for me. Thank you.
This is fabulous! I thank God he’s accepted me, such a broken person. Thanks for sharing such a beautiful truth. 🙂
Thank you, you are beautiful!
Great post! I might be a nobody in some people’s eyes but I’m the apple of God’s eye! Needed this today..thank you 🙂