Brokenness is what I need. Brokenness, brokenness is what you want from me. So take my heart, and form it. Take my mind, transform it. Take my will, conform it to Yours, to Yours, oh Lord.
Jesus stretched out His arms on the cross and declared, “It is finished.” That’s kinda how I feel right now. It’s relieving, revitalizing, and restoring me and others to a degree none of us had expected. We are broken, and we stand humble in our brokenness, because there is no other way to grow stronger than to break first.
Before I accept a hard fact, I must break my mind to its stubbornness in refusing to believe. When I drive forward, contrary to my physical desires, I break my body of its lust for comfort. So when I hurt my emotional feelings by tearing an idol away from myself, I break my spirit. Brokenness. And after I am broken, after I have fallen upon Christ, the chief cornerstone, I can truly be mended and reformed and stood up taller and stronger than ever before. And even though it is hard, I must continue to do so. To break myself in order to be built back up. Fall…rise…fall….rise. And all for the glory and edification of Christ. To Him be the glory, and honor, and power, forever and ever.
Amen.
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