Been Squeezed Lately?

God can never make us into wine if we object to the fingers He chooses to use to crush us. We say, "If God would only use His own fingers, and make me broken bread and poured-out wine in a special way, then I wouldn’t object!" But when He uses someone we dislike, or some set of circumstances to which we said we would never submit, to crush us, then we object. Yet we must never try to choose the place of our own martyrdom. If we are ever going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed— you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

I wonder what finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you? Have you been as hard as a marble and escaped? 

Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest 

Comments

[Kim in ON]

Wow.

[grabbersgirl]

Great minds think alike? Copied this into my journal the other day as it really resonates with this time in my life. Love Oswald. (And your blog, BTW.)