Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken people. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the whole in building their kingdoms. But God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filled with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed whom Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take a life crushed by pain and sorrow, and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to Heaven's glory!
[J. R. Miller]
Matthew 12:20-21 ... A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
Psalm 34:18 ... The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
1 Corinthians 1:27 ... But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;❤
