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经文: 「心里慌乱，便都昏迷。」（伯四十一25）
上帝所最重用的人物，都是先被击打得粉碎的。因为上帝所悦纳的祭，乃是忧
伤痛悔的心。雅各属天然的大腿窝在毗努伊勒扭了，上帝才能给他属超然的能力。摩西
用杖击打何烈的磐石，才有水流出来给口渴的百姓喝。
基甸和跟随他的三百精兵打破瓶子──打破自己──他们的火把才能使他们的
仇敌惊乱。
以斯帖在一个异邦宫中冒死违例进去见王，才得拯救她本族脱离灭亡。主耶稣
拿着五个饼、两条鱼，必须把它们擘开，然后才能叫五千人吃饱。马利亚打破她至贵的
玉瓶，才能教屋里充满香气。主耶稣宝贵的身体，必须被荆棘、钉子、枪矛，刺得粉碎
，祂里面的生命才能像活水一般倾倒出来给口渴的罪人喝。
一粒麦子必须落在地里面死了，才能结出无数的粒子来。所以，我们看见：无
论在历史上、传记上、植物上、属灵的生命上，上帝必须擘开打碎一切人、物，然后才
能重用他们。
啊！财物受了击打、「己生命」受了击打、美丽的理想受了击打、地上的名誉
受了击打、爱情受了击打、健康受了击打的信徒阿，你虽然被人轻视、被人弃绝，圣灵
却正抓住你，要用你叫上帝得着荣耀。你愿不愿意呢？以赛亚书三十三章二十三节告诉
我们：「瘸腿的把掠物夺去了。」你愿不愿意甘甘心心做一个瘸腿的来夺取掠物呢？
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Broken Things
Scripture: "By reason of breakings they purify themselves" (Job 41:25).
God uses most for His glory those people and things which are most
perfectly broken. The sacrifices He accepts are broken and contrite hearts.
It was the breaking down of Jacob's natural strength at Peniel that got him
where God could clothe him with spiritual power. It was breaking the surface
of the rock at Horeb, by the stroke of Moses' rod that let out the cool
waters to thirsty people.
It was when the 300 elect soldiers under Gideon broke their pitchers
, a type of breaking themselves, that the hidden lights shone forth to the
consternation of their adversaries. It was when the poor widow broke the
seal of the little pot of oil, and poured it forth, that God multiplied it
to pay her debts and supply means of support.
It was when Esther risked her life and broke through the rigid
etiquette of a heathen court, that she obtained favor to rescue her people
from death. It was when Jesus took the five loaves and broke them, that the
bread was multiplied in the very act of breaking, sufficient to feed five
thousand. It was when Mary broke her beautiful alabaster box, rendering it
henceforth useless, that the pent-up perfume filled the house. It was when
Jesus allowed His precious body to be broken to pieces by thorns and nails
and spear, that His inner life was poured out, like a crystal ocean, for
thirsty sinners to drink and live.
It is when a beautiful grain of corn is broken up in the earth by
DEATH, that its inner heart sprouts forth and bears hundreds of other grains
. And thus, on and on, through all history, and all biography, and all
vegetation, and all spiritual life, God must have BROKEN THINGS.
Those who are broken in wealth, and broken in self-will, and broken
in their ambitions, and broken in their beautiful ideals, and broken in
worldly reputation, and broken in their affections, and broken ofttimes in
health; those who are despised and seem utterly forlorn and helpless, the
Holy Ghost is seizing upon, and using for God's glory. "The lame take the
prey," Isaiah tells us. | A*********e
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: 破碎的器皿
: 经文: 「心里慌乱，便都昏迷。」（伯四十一25）
: 上帝所最重用的人物，都是先被击打得粉碎的。因为上帝所悦纳的祭，乃是忧
: 伤痛悔的心。雅各属天然的大腿窝在毗努伊勒扭了，上帝才能给他属超然的能力。摩西
: 用杖击打何烈的磐石，才有水流出来给口渴的百姓喝。
: 基甸和跟随他的三百精兵打破瓶子──打破自己──他们的火把才能使他们的
: 仇敌惊乱。
: 以斯帖在一个异邦宫中冒死违例进去见王，才得拯救她本族脱离灭亡。主耶稣
: 拿着五个饼、两条鱼，必须把它们擘开，然后才能叫五千人吃饱。马利亚打破她至贵的
: 玉瓶，才能教屋里充满香气。主耶稣宝贵的身体，必须被荆棘、钉子、枪矛，刺得粉碎
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