Becoming Wine

Colossians 1:24

For this study today I will use the devotional writing of Oswald Chambers. He had brilliant insight and I find my reading today quite inspiring and thought provoking.
" We take our own spiritual consecration and try to make it into a call of God, but when we get right with Him He brushes all this aside. Then He gives us tremedous, riveting pain to fasten our attention on something that we never even dreamed could be His call for us. And for one radiant, flashing moment we see His purpose and we say "Here am I Send Me". This call has nothing to do with sanctification, but with being made broken bread and poured out wine. Yet God can never make us into wine if we object to the fingers He chooses to us to crush us. ...He uses someone we dislike, or some set of circumstances to which we said we would never submit, to crush us....If we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed - you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine when they are squeezed. I wonder what finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you? Have you been hard as a marble and escaped? If you are not ripe yet, the wine would have been remarkably bitter.....Stay with God and let Him do as he likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children."
Blessings to you and yours.