“Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what He has made crooked?” – Ecclesiastes 7:13 (NIV)
At my house growing up, I never wanted the broken cookies from the bottom of the jar. My younger brother and I had to be desperate before we’d eat them.
But one of our older brothers held a different view. He actually liked them, because they were better for milk dipping. “They taste just as good as the unbroken ones,” he said.
Have you ever felt like a broken cookie?
A person’s strength is often their biggest weakness
Jocko Willink
BINGO. I resemble that remark.
I tried to look up “broken cookies” in my Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. Nope, it’s not in there. Neither is “smashed snickerdoodles.”
I did find some interesting stuff about broken pottery, though. I bet you already know the story, but here’s Jeremiah at the Potter’s house.
“So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. ” – Jeremiah 18:3-4 (NIV)
Then the Lord explains the parable: “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel” Jeremiah 18:6 (NIV)
God likes to re-purpose broken things
Someone once said of the legendary football coach Bo Schembechler, “He can take his team and beat yours, or your team and beat his.”
When God reaches into the jar for another “cookie” does it matter all that much who he chooses? He can win with anybody!
But the creator of the universe doesn’t care too much for whining.
“Does a clay pot dare argue with its maker, a pot that is like all the others? Does the clay ask the potter what he is doing? Does the pot complain that its maker has no skill?” – Isaiah 45:9 (GNT)
We ALL have our flaws. Stop taking yourself so dang seriously!
That last sentence is me talking to myself, of course. 😇
Fixating on our faults—despite God’s best intentions—is like shaking a fist in His face.
And it’s not such a bright idea to argue with The Boss.
Because…
“God can strike a straight lick with a crooked stick.”
L.R. Scarborough
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