What a volume of love in those words of the Lord to poor Peter, " Feed my lambs!" as if He would say, " I am going to make a channel of you for love to flow through, and I am breaking you down that you may be able to feed my lambs. You thought to be a strong disciple, I am making you see your weakness, giving you a broken heart, that you may be strong." Ah! there is nothing like a broken heart for a shepherd, there will be room in it for the lambs when he has got to the end of self. The Lord must always be breaking down a shepherd to enable him to feed His lambs.