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Leader Devo
One of the best sermons I’ve ever encountered came in the form of a broken seashell.
I had gone to see the sunrise, but it was cloudy so there wasn’t one to see. I was disappointed and decided instead to hunt for seashells. The shoreline was full of shells, but most of them were broken.
Soon a mother with her girls joined me and, oh my, the shrieks of delight! “So many shells, Mommy! They are so beautiful!” These girls didn’t care the shells were broken. They saw the beauty in their brokenness.
I felt God say to me, “I love broken shells too.” That brief encounter spoke volumes to me about the love of God. It changed me.
I wonder if that’s how Balaam in our story felt. Here he was, casting curses for money, when God interrupts his life through a talking donkey and a sword-wielding angel. Could he ever go back to the way things were again?
Read Numbers 22:24–38. The final statement, “I can only speak the words God puts in my mouth” is pretty telling (Numbers 22:38). I tend to believe Balaam’s words indicate more of a life change than a momentary utterance.
In what unexpected way has God spoken to you? What broken thing, familiar item, or everyday moment became life- altering and transformational? How has God used something ordinary—something unexpected—to further His plans in your life? God’s good plans cannot be stopped.
—Christina Embree
Nonprofit Ministry Director and Minister of Generational Discipleship
Contributor to Wonder Ink
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Word of Wonder:
God is able to do far more than we can ever ask for or imagine.
— Ephesians 3:20
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