We resist being broken.
While it is understandable and right to desire strength, resilience and
endurance, there is a natural recoiling from being stretched past the point of
one’s limitations until one breaks. Yet,
is in the place of encountering one’s limitations that one is most likely to
have a heart prepared to experience true fellowship with God. It is also from
that place, that the power of prayer is effectively launched.
The Psalmist understood this truth and wrote of it when he
penned, “My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you,
God, will not despise.” The Scripture
also promises that while God is “opposed to the proud” He “gives grace to the
humble.” It takes humility to meet
brokenness head-on and then to turn to the One Who can restore us to wholeness
so that we can minister to others in their brokenness as well.
When you find yourself in a hard place that breaks you, don’t deny it or hide because of it. Instead, turn to the Lord. Allow
Him to use your brokenness as the beginning point of powerful transformation
that will not only restore and bless you, but lead you reach out to bless
others so that they can be restored too.
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