Bread Corn is Bruised

[vinc]

Bread Corn is Bruised
by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

"Bread corn is bruised" (Isa. 28:28).

Many of us cannot be used to become food for the world's hunger until we are broken in Christ's hands. "Bread corn is bruised." Christ's blessing ofttimes means sorrow, but even sorrow is not too great a price to pay for the privilege of touching other lives with benediction. The sweetest things in this world today have come to us through tears and pain. --J. R. Miller

God has made me bread for His elect, and if it be needful that the bread must be ground in the teeth of the lion to feed His children, blessed be the name of the Lord. --Ignatius

"We must burn out before we can give out. We cease to bless when we cease to bleed."

"Poverty, hardship and misfortune have pressed many a life to moral heroism and spiritual greatness. Difficulty challenges energy and perseverance. It calls into activity the strongest qualities of the soul. It was the weights on father's old clock that kept it going. Many a head wind has been utilized to make port. God has appointed opposition as an incentive to faith and holy activity.

"The most illustrious characters of the Bible were bruised and threshed and ground into bread for the hungry. Abraham's diploma styles him as 'the father of the faithful.' That was because he stood at the head of his class in affliction and obedience.

"Jacob suffered severe threshings and grindings. Joseph was bruised and beaten and had to go through Potiphar's kitchen and Egypt's prison to get to his throne.

"David, hunted like a partridge on the mountain, bruised, weary and footsore, was ground into bread for a kingdom. Paul never could have been bread for Caesar's household if he had not endured the bruising, whippings and stonings. He was ground into fine flour for the royal family."

"Like combat, like victory. If for you He has appointed special trials, be assured that in His heart He has kept for you a special place. A soul sorely bruised is a soul elect."

 

[brinny]

I don't understand the 'ground into bread'. It sounds carniverous. Maybe because if someone has been victimized by trauma it is sounding like yet another victimization. It doesn't sound hopeful. It sounds like yet another abandonment, an abyssmal thing and devoid of God's grace.

If for you He has appointed special trials, be assured that in His heart He has kept for you a special place.

The 'special place' is to be obliterated, like you never existed? You just disappear? Like an invisible 'cog' that didn't matter and just disintegrates? You are ground into bread? And eaten? That's the most depressing thing I've read in a long time.

Did you ever see the movie 1984?

 

[vinc]

That is how God deals with His children to make them Saints. Thatz how God The Father dealt with Lord Jesus Christ too bro. However, He would not compel any of His children to accept this kind of "grounding" or "bruising". But, only to all His children who really wish to grow Spiritually.

This is indeed a hard message and thatz why i have posted it here in "Deeper Fellowship" Forum.

 

[brinny]

That is how God deals with His children to make them Saints. Thatz how God The Father dealt with Lord Jesus Christ too bro. However, He would not compel any of His children to accept this kind of "grounding" or "bruising". But, only to all His children who really wish to grow Spiritually.

This is indeed a hard message and thatz why i have posted it here in "Deeper Fellowship" Forum.

You didn't hear me. I'd also like to post a quote. Here it is:

"God never uses sandpaper on wounds." ~brinny

Perhaps you are not familiar with those who are raw with woundings and therefore you basically said 'too bad', ignoring the pain of others, as you did when you ignored the core of what I was expressing. You do realize that if what you posted is misunderstood, it is needing grace from you to explain it or to at least understand the pain of someone who is already hurting. Words without grace from God is waaay out of season. As it says in Isaiah:

FOR THOSE WHO ARE HURTING:
"The Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned that I might know how to speak a word in season to those who are weary; He awakens me morning by morning He awakens my ears to hear as those of the wise."
Isaiah 50:4

You did not hear me.

And I am not a bro'

 

[carmi]

I don't understand the 'ground into bread'. It sounds carniverous. Maybe because if someone has been victimized by trauma it is sounding like yet another victimization. It doesn't sound hopeful. It sounds like yet another abandonment, an abyssmal thing and devoid of God's grace.

Actually that verse Is. 28:28 is one of my favorites, and it does make me hopeful because the op quoted only the first part of the verse. Here is the full verse

"Bread corn is bruised; because He will not forever treshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with horsemen."

You see there is not another victimization implied. The promise is "not forever" and the bruising does not continue in a way that you get run over and trampled down.

In order to understand and have compassion, you need to know what the other experiences. You suffer a trauma, that is you are bruised. But this trauma makes you compassionate and you can give your regained strength to those who suffer the same. Your words coming from your own experience of loss and/or suffering can sustain a person who suffered the same loss or injury.

For example: even after I got saved I could not understand how someone could end up job- and homeless. It was beyond me. And I did look down on these people. I thought they were just lazy and that is why there in that situation. Until I lost my job and could not get another one, regardless of how much I was looking for one. I ended up living in the street for days.

I felt definitely bruised and deserted. But then I realized that God did not forsake me, He kept me alive and that He was dealing with me, with my hard attitude. Since then I don't have this hard attitude anymore. I know how one can get into that kind of position.

He did not deal with me forever in that way, once I accepted that I had to go through this and that I had to learn this lesson and was content (yes, as strange as it sounds during that time I felt the "peace that passes all understanding" - until then I had no clue what that meant), He restored me, I got back home, and a new job opportunity.

 

[brinny]

Actually that verse Is. 28:28 is one of my favorites, and it does make me hopeful because the op quoted only the first part of the verse. Here is the full verse

"Bread corn is bruised; because He will not forever treshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with horsemen."

You see there is not another victimization implied. The promise is "not forever" and the bruising does not continue in a way that you get run over and trampled down.

In order to understand and have compassion, you need to know what the other experiences. You suffer a trauma, that is you are bruised. But this trauma makes you compassionate and you can give your regained strength to those who suffer the same. Your words coming from your own experience of loss and/or suffering can sustain a person who suffered the same loss or injury.

For example: even after I got saved I could not understand how someone could end up job- and homeless. It was beyond me. And I did look down on these people. I thought they were just lazy and that is why there in that situation. Until I lost my job and could not get another one, regardless of how much I was looking for one. I ended up living in the street for days.

I felt definitely bruised and deserted. But then I realized that God did not forsake me, He kept me alive and that He was dealing with me, with my hard attitude. Since then I don't have this hard attitude anymore. I know how one can get into that kind of position.

He did not deal with me forever in that way, once I accepted that I had to go through this and that I had to learn this lesson and was content (yes, as strange as it sounds during that time I felt the "peace that passes all understanding" - until then I had no clue what that meant), He restored me, I got back home, and a new job opportunity.

Yes! My point exactly! We have 'seasons' of suffering. I have had, and still have them. But underneath it all is God's grace in the midst of it, and that is what must be emphasized. Otherwise we have the mistaken notion that we suffer through it in our own strength. My own horrendous suffering opened the floodgates to grace that spilled out when I later was interacting with those suffering in so many ways. I learned compassion, empathy, and grace that I would've never learned otherwise. In the midst of someone's suffering they need to hear about God's promises, His grace, His loving kindness, and His tender mercies. It makes it bearable to go just a bit further and it reminds them that it's not permanent.

I appreciate your post so much. God bless you!

 

[vinc]

I am sorry Sis.Brinny if i have failed to explain in a comforting manner. I think God has to break me a lot more until i learn how to give replies in a comforting manner and with grace (as you have rightly said). Thanks be to God who made Sis.Carmi explain better. I guess the age differences between Sis.Carmi and me can throw a clue as to why she could explain it in a lot more better way.

 

[brinny]

I am sorry Sis.Brinny if i have failed to explain in a comforting manner. I think God has to break me a lot more until i learn how to give replies in a comforting manner and with grace (as you have rightly said). Thanks be to God who made Sis.Carmi explain better. I guess the age differences between Sis.Carmi and me can throw a clue as to why she could explain it in a lot more better way.

THank you for your response. I've seen so many of your posts and they have blessed me in so many ways. When it comes to suffering, it is something that many of us are familiar with.
Schindler's List comes to mind. It was based on a true story. The real-life people the story was based on faced seeing their families shot like prey, for sport, and tortured and debased in more ways I can mention here. They were killed and their bodies were piled on top of one another in giant wheelbarrows, and then the entire heap of bodies was dumped into a ditch and then set on fire. An analogy like being 'ground up' in any way and 'consumed' for someone in the midst of this very real horror may not be a 'word in season' to those who are beyond weary.

I'd like to use an illustration if you can bear with me a little longer. A horse that has been traumatized has been terrorized and abused beyond endurance. Imagine for just a minute what this horse needs. People are traumatized and have similar after-effects.

Think for a minute of an island. On that island live those who have practices and rituals where they burn people alive, ground them up, and consume them. A little girl or little boy watches their mommy and daddy be burned alive, ground up, and consumed. They grow up. A missionary comes to the island. This missionary speaks their language and tells them that God is a God who wishes to ground them and have them consumed.

Maybe you know where I'm going with this.

I pray that you understand why I felt compelled to respond the way I did. I also pray that you take what you can from it and that at least a part of it is a blessing to you.

God bless you,
Brenda

 

[vinc]

Yes Sis.Brinny. I understood what you meant in your first reply itself. And your second reply explains more clearly. Thank you for reading my "borrowed" posts and its extremely humble and nice of you to acknowledge that you have been blessed by reading them.

God bless you too
Vincent

 

[vinc]

BTW i must add that your "cheeky" emoticon looks pretty cool .

 

[brinny]

for your gracious response to my response.

God bless you.

...and I'm glad you like the the 'cheeky' icon