Food for thought

“The first thing the Father does with us is to get us based on the rugged Reality until we do not care what becomes of us individually as long as He gets His way for the purpose of His Redemption.  Why shouldn’t we go through heartbreaks?  Through those doorways the Father is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son.  Most of us fall and collapse at the first grip of pain; we sit down on the threshold of the Father’s purpose and die away of self-pity, and all so-called Christian sympathy will aid us to our death bed.  But the Father will not.  He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His son, and says, ‘Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.’  If through a broken heart the Father can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”

~Oswald Chambers