God Uses Broken Things

God Uses Broken Things
1 Corinthians 1:26–29

We live in a disposable world. When something breaks, we throw it out. When something gets old, we upgrade it. We’ve been trained to believe that damaged means worthless. But God operates on an entirely different economy. Paul reminds the Corinthians that God deliberately chose the weak, the overlooked, and the unimpressive — so that no one could boast in themselves. God still gives purpose to broken things. And that’s good news, because every one of us qualifies.

He pursues us. But we’re also called to pursue Him — to surrender, to respond, and then to go after the people He’s still reaching for.

1. Remember — Grace Found You Too

• Romans 5:8 — While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 3:23 — All have sinned.
• We forget what God brought us out of. And when we forget, something dangerous happens: we can get so “saved” that we become useless to the mission. It stops being about the lost and starts being about us.
• We all needed the blood. He reached all the way down for every one of us.
• Don’t lose your ability to extend grace to someone else because you’ve forgotten the grace extended to you.

2. Reach — Go After What Jesus Died For

• Luke 19:10 — The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. Matthew 9:37 — the harvest is plentiful, the workers are few. Matthew 28:19 — Go.
• Jesus didn’t wait for broken people to find Him. He went after them. That means we have to be aware and intentional about people around us.
• People don’t care what you have to say until they know you care about them.
• Jesus pursued the prodigal. We have to go to the broken — not wait for them to clean up and show up.
• We can’t pray for a harvest and then refuse to walk into the field.
• Sometimes we are the answer to the prayer we’re praying, and we miss it.

3. Restore — See What Jesus Can Make of What Is Broken

• Jeremiah 18:3–4 — the potter takes the marred clay and forms it again. Matthew 11:28 — Come to me, all who are weary.
• We carry the scars of past wounds. But God takes the broken, fragmented pieces of our lives and makes something beautiful out of them.
• Broken does not equal finished.
• The potter doesn’t discard the clay. He reshapes it.
• God’s ultimate desire is our restoration and reconciliation to Him — not our replacement.

Bottom Line: God has never needed impressive people. He chose the weak, the flawed, and the overlooked on purpose. So remember the grace that found you, reach for the people Jesus died for, and trust the hands of the Potter with whatever’s still broken in you. In God’s hands, broken is where the story starts, not where it ends.