Oswald Chambers . . . a reminder

"God can never make us [good] wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us. If God would only use His own fingers, and make me broken bread and poured-out wine in a special way! But when He uses someone whom we dislike, or some set of circumstances to which we said we would never submit, and makes those the crushers, we object. We must never choose the scene of our own martyrdom. [We don't get to pick how we're broken(or how we die).] If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine ony when they have been squeezed.

I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a [watermelon seed] and escaped. You are not ripe yet, and if God had squeezed you, the wine would have been remarkably bitter. We have to be adjusted to God before we can be broken bread in His hands...

...Keep right with God and let Him do what He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children."