Brokenness

How are you doing listing things you are thankful for? I have 101 and just keep writing them as I think about them. Check out this picture of the skyline from yesterday! It made the list! In a world like ours we see so many heartbreaking things. One thing that is guaranteed in life is that we will all be “broken” at some point in our life. I am not talking about the everyday, but the, “I can’t breath” and “I don’t know if I can go on” brokenness. However, if we are like David and Paul in the Bible, we would thank God for the brokenness. Why?

I know you are probably thinking, thanks Crystal...great way to start the week!

The crazy think about brokenness, is that you will always find God there. Where we find God we find Peace, Joy, Abundance.

When we are comfortable, regimented, busy, we often slack on depending on God, but we do need God. Not only do we need God, we need Him everyday. When Moses led the Israelites in the desert, the people begged for food. They were hungry. They prayed to God and He gave them Manna from the sky daily. They could not let the Manna sit overnight or it would rot. If they did not gather the manna - they would go hungry.

“He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then He gave you manna to eat, which you and your fathers had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 8:3 HCSB

If you did not eat for a couple days - you would be starving. God demonstrates that we also have a hunger for Him and the only way to satisfy that hunger is spending time with God.

A seed must be buried in the Earth and then be under great stress to bust and a plant grow out of the Earth.

A woman and baby must go through significant pain and stress to be born into the world.

A star in the sky is actually elements that have collided and are breaking at their center which releases energy and causes a beautiful light. Basically, stars are scars of the universe in the sky.

What have you gone through in your life. When did you learn the most from God, in the ease of a mundane day...or in times of stress and brokenness.

Ann Voskamp says, “What would happen if the scars you carry are what God uses to carry Christ to a scarred and broken world? Weak is the real strong. Brokenness is the real abundance. Breaking -then blazing.”

Think about Jesus Himself. He was beaten, speared, nailed, broken....killed. However, out of dying came rising. If you are saved and have accepted Jesus as your Lord and savior to live for Him, the spirit that raised God from the dead, lives in us. Is that not the most surreal concept in the world!

Maybe to be broken is not so bad. There is nothing greater than God in this world, not even the brokenness.

Love you guys.

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