Bread and wine were the food staples in Jesus’ time. They’re pretty popular now. But here of no good if the wine is in an unopened bottle and the bread is an unbroken loaf. They become useful when poured out and broken. The image of us as broken bread and poured out wine is a great one. For it is our purpose to be useful, in fact, necessary substance for others. There is no greater purpose, calling or thrill than to be essential to the life of another. But are we ready to be broken bread and poured-out wine? Yes, we respond weakly. Weakly, because brokenness and a pour out self seems painful. What if we knew it was what was necessary for His call on our lives? Yes, we respond with more vigor. But what if He uses someone we dislike or a set of circumstances to which we said we would never submit, to crush us? Now we are more than unsure. We might be willing if the call is truly great, if we can choose the instruments of brokenness. But we can’t.
Then He gives us a tremendous, riveting pain to fasten our attention on something that we never even dreamed could be His call for us. And for one radiant, flashing moment we see His purpose, and we say, “Here am I! Send me” (Isaiah 6:8).
If we love Him, we want to be used by Him. If we love Him, we should trust Him to do to us, even what is painful, for we know it is for our betterment. It’s all about surrender, absolute and complete,.
Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.
Surrender and be broken bread and poured-out wine, a blessing to ourselves and to others.
Nick
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