Brokenness

Ever feel as if your life is this way?

Finding that I cannot fix myself or my problems, I realize that I need God.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart,
O God, you will not despise.

 

Perhaps you can relate to this ...

"Instead of trying to fix your brokenness, maybe you need to embrace it.  Your brokenness may be a blessing in disguise. Like a mother who is drawn to her crying baby, God is drawn to human brokenness. And if you allow Him to, he will put you back together in ways that will one day cause you to celebrate the brokenness as a gift from God. It's in our brokenness that God's holiness is most clearly revealed." 

"Like a good shepherd who breaks the leg of a lamb that has a tendency to stray away from the flock, thereby putting itself in danger, God breaks us when and where we need to be broken.  It seems like cruel and unusual punishment, but it is God's way of protecting us from ourselves. And the breaking always has a redemptive purpose. The hurt will heal stronger. And God graciously carries us around His shoulders until we have the strength to stand on our own two feet again."



I like that the breaking has a redemptive purpose and most importantly that God is there through it to carry me.  He has said, "I will never leave thee or forsake thee."

quotes from pages 126 and 128 ~ Soul Print by Mark Batterson