Unbroken vessels become bad examples to follow.
We stand in need of messengers, preachers, teachers and fathers that minister the Word of God from humility and meekness.
This place of brokeness looks like weakness. Yet, it becomes the place of God's great strength, might power, authority and wisdom operating in one who has endured being broken.
1 Corinthians 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
In the wilderness, in the cave, on the mountain top one learns complete dependency upon Christ.
It is from this place we are able to not only find rest, but we find our resting place.
He becomes our all in all.
An unbroken person usually comes to rely on position, power, what they have, what they know or what they do for their identity.
As sons and daughter of God, our identity and validation comes from His affirmation and approval of who we are as His children.
It is from a state of being, not doing.
It is not that we know about Him.
We know Him and are known by Him
We come forth as sons of God in calling, stewardship, Gifting, mandates etc .. by being birthed from relationship and Covenant with the Father first.
This comes from the place of breaking before the making.
As I like to say, " if we are not refined, we cannot be defined"
All gold and silver must be purified before it is ever poured into a mold to create jewelery or art.
Any precious elements not separated from base metals cheapens the value and quality of what is made.
It is this same pattern that plays out in the life of every believer.
The same way precious metal is refined and then defined, so are we.
When we stand before people, many times it is the unrefined and unbroken parts of us that talk louder than the part of us that is genuine.
It is because of mixture, that true value and worth many times is not seen.
An unbroken vessel carries traits of pride, flesh, false humility that appears as strength, but releases a false representation before the people.
This representation is then emulated and then imitated producing vessels dependent on man more than on Christ.
Even as Saul, first king of Israel stood head and shoulders over the people, he appeared strong.
We must learn to not look just upon the outward appearance of a person.
1 Samuel 10:23
So they found him and brought him out, and he stood head and shoulders above anyone else.
Yet, this unharnessed vessel brought great destruction and pain to Israel.
He was anointed with a flask,1 Samuel 10:1
He ascended immediately to the throne and power without any breaking or making.
He was man made.
Meanwhile, David was on the backside of the fields tending sheep, fighting wild animals and writing songs. He was a man after Gods own heart.
When Samuel went to anoint the chosen one, he made the mistake of looking on the older brother.
1 Samuel 16:-7
It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely the LORD’s anointed is before him.”
7 But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For humans do not see as God sees, for humans look at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart.”
He was anointed with a rams horn by Samuel 1 Samuel 16:13.
David was 17 - 20 years before receiving the throne in Juadah. He was another 7 years before being crowned in Israel.
He was a broken vessel.
He was God made.
We see the difference in their approach to leadership and the influence on the people.
Saul used the people and extracted from them.
David covered the people and gave to them.
Saul saw the people as ones to serve him.
David saw himself as a servant to the people.
The impact a broken vessel will have on people is that it brings healing and virtue from Heaven.
Truth operates leading people to righteousness and humility allowing a sure foundation to be laid. It creates an atmosphere for obedience to be cultivated.
It builds strong covenant relationships because it was built on the Rock, Word and the Spirit
The affects of an unbroken vessel on people is that it produces more wounds.
Perversion and deception eventually flows from this camp. Lies operate creating more pride.
Rebellion begins to manifest more and more to the commandments of God.
It breaks covenant because it was built for self upon personality and flesh.
This become more evident when we compare the True Bride of Christ compared to the Harlot Church.
The true bride adores herself for the heavenly bridegroom and prepares for eternity with spiritual resources.
The harlot adores herself for seducing others to herself and prepares temporarily with natural resources
It is good to be naturally secure.
However, it does not benefit one to prepare temporarily and ignore eternity.
Vessels, broken by the potter, and Master of our soul, will weep over the unregenerate state of humanity. They see from the heart of God and it continues to break their heart.
The prophet Isaiah, seeing Christ in past tense 650 years prior to Christ's birth prophesied this.
Isaiah 53:2 He was despised, and rejected by people; a man of sorrows, and familiar with illness; and as one from whom people hide their face. He was despised and we did not value him.
The irony of the one most rejected by man was most qualified by Heaven.
I pray we can see through the eyes of the Father.
Who has the Kingdom called, prepared, qualified and chosen as examples to the Body?
We might be surprised by Sovereign selection versus man's election.
In His Service,
Jesse Griffin
