God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.
~ Vance Havner

When something gets broken, we see it as a bad thing.  We see destruction, waste, and loss. But God has something more like the image above in mind.  He doesn’t have to go about breaking things in order to make these works of art.  It just happens in this life.  We are fallible.  We are sin-infested.  The amazing thing is the way that God takes those pieces and redeems them, working all things together for good to those that love Him and are called according to His purposes.  Sometimes we don’t see the finished work of creative genius coming together.  Sometimes we won’t see the mosaic or the gorgeous tapestry until much later, and maybe not even until heaven.  Everything we place in HIs hands, will be salvaged. And sometimes, lets face it, we find ourselves with situations on our hands that we simply cannot unravel ourselves.  Sometimes they are huge and complex, potentially effecting many others, and sometimes the consequences are limited to self, yet pretty devastating.

There are plenty of broken believers in the world.  All of the Christian faith is not mountaintop experiences.  But God is there walking that road with us, no matter how stormy, dark, isolated, chaotic, steep, or treacherous.  It always comes down to trusting His heart, and definitely never trusting our own.  When you can’t discern a purpose, or see the good, and maybe even feel He is silent, it still comes down to whether you will choose to believe He is who He says He is, and does what He says He will do.

And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.  1 Corinthians 11:24