In staff, we had a plate of different spices on our table and was challenged during devotion to identify the spices and which one can you identify with in your life spiritually.
I chose cinnamon. In it’s hardened form, it can be used as a spice, but more for decoration, appearance only. When you crush it, grind it, pulverize it, it becomes a powerful spice that can sweeten things like no other spice. When you are pulverized, ground up, when you are crushed, you become a powerful witness for God with a sweet grace that reflects Jesus’s grace for the world.
Paul said in 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.