God Uses Broken People

Is there a God?

No matter what theories you have heard or read, there is one question that no scientist can answer.

Why does anything exist at all? Why is there something instead of nothing?

If you can read these thoughts, you are alive.

How did you come into the world?

Were your parents a loving couple? Maybe not.

Whether you were wanted by your mother or came from an unwanted pregnancy, there is a God who made that pregnancy possible.

If no one on this earth wanted you, there is a loving God who created you because he wanted you.

There are so many people who have only experienced rejection. Then they may hear from preachers that they are also rejected by God because of their sins.

A young Christian approached a young prostitute and threatened her with the flames of hell.

Jesus threatened the proud religious people with the flames of hell, but he was always kind and compassionate with the prostitutes and other broken people.

The self-righteous religious professionals scolded Jesus for keeping company with supposedly wicked sinners.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ Lk 7:34 NIV

Jesus was the Son of God who was in eternal fellowship with Father God before the foundation of the world. God saw broken people, ruined by their own sins, or by the sins of others.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Jn 3:16–17 NIV

When Jesus visited his hometown, he explained his mission of salvation by quoting the Bible.

“The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; Lk 4:18 NKJV

Jesus did not only want to forgive and heal broken people. He chose rejected people to proclaim God's new world.

Jesus chose despised women, and sent them out.

The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.” Jn 4:18 NIV

This woman then believed in Jesus as the Messiah.

Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,
“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” Jn 4:28–29 NIV

Jesus sent this woman to her village, and everyone came to believe.

If you are broken, Jesus doesn't just want to forgive and heal you. He wants to give you a new life. In this new life you can also help others.