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dealt to every man the measure of faith”. The Lord sees His perfect
seed of faith in you and knows what that seed will become in it’s
maturity. He calls for that which He put in you, the potential to have
union with His spirit and become a Son/Daughter of God. Check out
Romans 7:4 (How we bear fruit)
Here is a second thing I get from all of this. Do not think that because a
man is stripped, whether it is of health, of possessions, of family, of
paycheck, whatever, that he is broken. That is entirely a different thing.
It looks like Job was broken in chapter 1, when all of these waves came in
one after another. He stands there saying: “Naked I came from my
mother’s womb. And naked I shall return there. God gave and God
took away. Blessed be the name of God.” It looks like he was broken
then, but he was not.
A SUFFERING CHRISTIAN OR A BROKEN CHRISTIAN?

Broken health does not mean broken spirit. Do not confuse a suffering
Christian with a broken Christian, because it is not the same thing. Many
Christians suffer, but they are not broken in their heart of hearts. As a
matter of fact, those two things might be millions of miles apart. A person
is never broken by losses or crosses. A person is never broken by adverse
circumstances. Never is! He is broken by seeing God. The word broken
we are using here is actually weak in that you might miss its true
meaning. The breaking of our soul and flesh brings us to “losing
confidence in the flesh” and prepares us to see God when He appears. It is
really a dying to the illusion of this reality, so that you can seek and cling
to the Kingdom of God. We must forsake our adulterous relationship with
this world and our addiction to control our environment. Christians quote
the Bible and pray not knowing that they are using spiritual things to
manipulate God and nature. God crushes you so that you will look to
Him! Then, looking to Him, you die to this world and become alive in
Him. Until you look to the Lord, you will never be broken in spirit and
contrite in heart.
So the cherubim look at God, and the Bible says they veil their eyes. So
Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up, and then he said: “Woe is me! I
am undone. I am a man of unclean lips.” So Daniel looked at God and
said: “My comeliness is turned to dust.” So Peter looked at God and said:
“Depart from me, O, Lord, for I am a sinful man.” So John looked at
God and fell on his face as a dead man. So Job looked at God and said:
“I have seen Thee with the seeing of the eye; now I repent in
dust and ashes.” First John 3:2 says, “When we see Him, we will be

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