<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=525352" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>God’s Broken Vessels</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">so often I heard <br>from those wise <br>in worldly ways </div><div style="margin:10px 0">proud in youthful <br>strength exuberance <br>high spirited vitality </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or mature in success <br>confident in achievements <br>resting on laurels earned</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>words that approximate in <br>agreed contemplation to this</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought religion was only a <br>crutch for the weak the broken</div><div style="margin:10px 0">reminds of Karl Marx and his often quoted <br>‘religion as Opium of the people’ comment </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>yet God gave authority <br>to those who will conquer <br>and observe his deed until </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the time of the end, authority <br>over nations, to shepherd <br>over people with an iron rod</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'so that they will be broken to <br>pieces like clay vessels, the <br>same as I received from my Father' Revelation 2: 27</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>keeps springing to mind <br>the intriguing part of that verse <br>is Christ received the same </div><div style="margin:10px 0">for us from his father <br>we are truly remade in <br>the image of Christ</div><div style="margin:10px 0">his broken flesh was scourged <br>for us, thirty nine stripes, <br>to conquer all thirty nine types </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>of medically declared diseases<br>remember God “is near to those <br>that are broken hearted; And </div><div style="margin:10px 0">those who are crushed in spirit he saves” Psalms 34: 18<br>“Better is the little of the righteous one<br>Than the abundance of the many wicked ones.” Psalms 37: 16</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=525352" data-title="God’s Broken Vessels de Terence George Craddock" data-description="so often I heard from those wise in worldly ways proud in youthful strength exuberance high spirited vitality or mature in success confident in achievements resting on laurels earned words that approximate in agreed contemplation to t..."></div> </div> </div>

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