Read this verse with fresh eyes. Ask yourself what Jesus did just before he blessed the bread.
“Now as they were eating, Jesus, having taken bread and having blessed it, broke it, and having given it to the disciples, he said, ‘Take, eat; this is my body’” (Matthew 26:26).
What God blesses, he first breaks.
The words of this anonymously written poem ring true:
When God wants to drill a man,
And thrill a man,
And skill a man,
When God wants to mold a man
To play the noblest part.
When he yearns with all his heart
To create so great and bold a man
That all the world shall be amazed,
Watch his methods, watch his ways!
How he ruthlessly perfects
Whom he royally elects!
How he hammers him and hurts him,
And with might blows converts him
Into trial shapes of clay which
Only God understands;
While his tortured heart is crying
And he lifts beseeching hands!
How he bends but never breaks
When his good he undertakes;
How he uses whom he chooses,
And which every purpose fuses him;
By every act induces him
To try his splendor out –
God knows what he’s about.
Recovery Step: You ask to be blessed. Ask to be broken.
