"A Broken Heart" -2

"The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit." (Psalms 34:18) If you don't understand what it means to be crushed, then perhaps you have not yet experience the wine press of the Lord; because there is a wine press which the Lord uses, that He makes the wine poured out to do His will upon this earth. When it comes to our calling, meaning, that which God has called you out of the darkness to be a light for, we are responsible for the fulfillment of our part in that which we are called. Okay, so maybe you have not yet see what you are called for; but I bet that you have, and just have not realized what it was; most likely because it has been there, right in front of your face, all throughout your life. When we come to the Lord, we sometimes expect God to give us a totally new life, one free from all that which we previously lived in the flesh; yet, it may please God that you are to minister to people who are currently living the way that you once lived. If you were a outlaw biker, then you minister to outlaw bikers; if you were trap in an addiction, then you minister to those that are trapped in addictions. Seldom do we ever get to choose what we are called to do, because a calling is part of what you have been living through. If you don't understand what I mean, or if you don't believe it, then check it out for yourself, and pick just about any character from the Bible, figure out what their calling was, and then look at their life prior, and see if they weren't molded and shaped for such a calling. As I previously mentioned, this was a turning point in David's life; one in which he began the forming and the assembling of his army; not to oppose Saul and his army, but rather, to begin to establish his position as king of God's people. And if you look at those who assembled around him, they were those in which society had rejected and neglected; those that were destitute, homeless, in debt and broken; hungry for a new way of life, and someone to lead them to it. And why should David be any different? Did not God use a shepherd to shepherd His people? God has a specific plan and a purpose for our lives; one in which we have been fashioned and molded into, by both our free will and God's Divine intervention, since before the time we were actually born. It's kind of hard to see how that all works, but there are people that were here before you, that your life has meaning for, and your life should have meaning for the next generation... "Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him that formed it, Why hast Thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom He hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?" (Romans 9:20-24)