Lucky Break
Theme of the Week: Look for That Silver Lining
Mark Batterson
Monday, July 9, 2007
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Key Bible Verse: We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they are good for us(Romans 5:3).Bonus Reading: Romans 5:2-5
In high school I'd tried for years to dunk a basketball. It was my holy grail. Ironically, it took a broken ankle for me to first achieve that goal.
As a sophomore, I was just running down the court in one of our drills, and tripped over a line on the floor. I spent the next month in a cast, and remember questioning God. After all, He could have kept it from happening.
Here's what did happen. That semester my classes seemed to alternate between the top and bottom floors of our three-floor high school. So after every period I was hopping up and down flights of stairs like a human pogo stick. When you're injured in one place, you've got to draw more strength from somewhere else. In a process called remodeling, my right leg grew stronger to compensate for my broken left ankle. The brokenness actually increased my capacity. I dunked my first basketball while wearing a cast!
Like a broken bone that needs to be reset, God breaks us where we need to be broken. He fractures the pride and lust and anger in our lives, but He does it to remodel us into His image. And once we heal, we end up stronger than we were to begin with.
—Mark Batterson in In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day
My Response: Where have I been broken? How may God be increasing my capacity?
Adapted from In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day (Multnomah, 2006) by permission.
Copyright © 2007 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.Click here for reprint information on Men of Integrity. 1 of 1
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Help me, Lord, not to fret or fume about troubles, but to accept them as part of Your plan for the ultimate good of Your kingdom—and me.
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