He Breaks What He Takes
June 05, 2022      |     By: Eric Loss      |      Category: Primers      |      Location: El Dorado
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"The Normal Christian Life"

When the Galilean boy brought his bread to the Lord, what did the Lord do with it? He broke it. God will always break what is offered to him. He breaks what he takes, but after breaking it he blesses and uses it to meet the needs of others. After you give yourself to the Lord, he begins to break what was offered to him. Everything seems to go wrong, and you protest and find fault with the ways of God. But to stay there is to be no more than just a broken vessel -no good for the world because you have gone too far for the world to use you, and no good for God either because you have not gone far enough for him to use you. You are out of gear with the world, and you have a controversy with God. This is the tragedy of many a Christian.

My giving of myself to the Lord must be an initial fundamental act. Then, day by day, I must go on giving to him, not finding fault with his use of me, but accepting with praise even what the flesh finds hard. That way lies true enrichment.

"The Release Of The Spirit"
In order for His life-giving Spirit to be released through the channel of the human spirit, the 'hard-shell' soul of the outward man necessitates breaking. This is largely accomplished through the dealings of our daily circumstances which God allows and so orders. There may be some who are unprepared for such a bitter dose of spiritual medicine. Yet we believe anyone with discernment and hunger will agree that the breaking of the soul-powers of the outward man is imperative if the human spirit is to express Christ as our life freely.

It is necessary (in this writing) that we direct these words to that group of people who has the Lord's life. Among those who possess the life of the Lord, they can be found in two distinct conditions: One includes those in whom life is confined, restricted, imprisoned, and unable to come forth. The other includes those in whom the Lord has forged a way out, and life is thus released through them. The question is not how thus to obtain life, but rather how to allow this life to come forth. When we say “we need the Lord to break us,” this is not merely a style of speaking, nor is it only a doctrine. It is most vital that the Lord breaks us. It is not that the Lord's life cannot cover the earth, but rather we imprison His life. It is not that the Lord cannot bless the church, but that the Lord's life is so confined within us, nothing is flowing forth. If the outward man remains unbroken, we can never be a blessing to His church.