Broken and Blessed

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As Oswald Chambers told it, we should be people "like broken bread and spilled wine". What could he be referring to?

Throughout the Bible we can find examples of people being "broken" for serving others. Moses was called by God to endure endless waves of murmuring and criticism as he led the people into the Promised Land. Throughout his life Joseph was betrayed, imprisoned and forced to live as a slave in Egypt for a time. Many prophets experienced this brokenness.

In each case, God allowed these situations to happen so that the lives of His people would be the scene of His grace and providence, not only for their own sake but for the sake of others. God is able to use us in this way.

Mark's Gospel quotes the miracle of the broken loaves, and – in both cases {Ch. 6&8} – it says : "he blessed and broke them" and Matthew also mentioned the blessing and the breaking.
Breaking is an immediate multiplication. It is good to refresh in a meditation:
The bread is His body.
We are also His body.

Roger Sanguino: geometria est imago xxxii
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This is the Good News: There is power in it. Paul talks about it this way:
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
Phil 3:10
As Kelley Latta told in her blog:
life doesn’t come from hearing about the bread. Bread only nourishes when we partake.
She also cited Paul in the book of Romans:
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Romans 8:29

She also pointed out that the the root {sprout} is coming out of the dry {parched} ground as Isaiah told us in 53:2.

He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

This is the ID of the Lord, the shape and dynamic of his character.
If we really want Jesus, personally, and want the identification with Him – we must be ready for these things too.

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