What if I told you that the brokenness you feel in your life isn’t a sign of weakness, but a sign that God is preparing you for a breakthrough?
Too often, we give up and check out right before things are about to the around because become overwhelmed with trying to keep everything together by ourselves. We were never called to keep it all together. We are called to surrender to God.
I want you tell you to never run away from brokenness but instead follow God because he can shine through brightly all the cracks we have.
I have a nephew who loves playing with Legos. He likes to make things, but he also enjoys breaking them apart to see if he can rebuild them into something new. Sometimes we have to buy more legos so he can make new things.
In comparison, our creator God also enjoys building, creating and making new things. This means He can’t build something that’s already established which means He needs prices to work with.
We may desire to keep it all together, God likes us broken. How many times have you said to yourself “I have got to keep myself together” or told someone to keep it together?” God wants us broken because when we’re in pieces, so He has something to work with.
God doesn’t want us to be self-made. He wants us to be God-made. The Bible tells us we are his workmanship, we are his masterpiece that he is in the process of making. He is building something greater than ourselves. But it’s a process of building, forming, and moving us into what He desires.
2 Corinthians 4:6-7 tells us,
“Seeing it is God who said, light will shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Yeshua the Messiah. But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.”
God will break us to build us – to build us back up, but he also does it to let light shine through.
An egg must be broken for the nutrients to come out. A woman’s water must break for the baby to come out. Darkness has a break for light to shine through.
Breaking is painful, but it’s not always bad. We’ve grown to believe that brokenness must be avoided at all costs not realizing that brokenness is necessary.
We avoid brokenness because we think it makes us weak, but in the upside down Kingdom of God, it is brokenness that makes us better, it makes us stronger, it’s a very mechanism. God uses to allow His strength, His light, and His power to shine through us.
Yes, we can strive, and fake it, and cover it up to keep it all together because we’re afraid that if we are not in control, everything will fall apart, but what we’re really afraid of is that we will fall apart, but that’s the point. That our ways will be disrupted, that our cycles will fracture, and that our hearts will break so that God can do a greater work in us because that’s the only way His glory will shine through the cracks of our mistakes, our missteps, and our weaknesses.
In Genesis 12:4 we see that there was not just a building up, but a tearing down when God created the Earth.
“…And God separated the light from darkness”
In order for light to shine through darkness, it had to break. In order for the light of Christ that is in us to shine through, God sometimes breaks our hearts, but a broken heart doesn’t mean we have to lose heart .
“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed, perplexed, but not driven to despair, persecuted, but not forsaken, stuck down, but not destroyed, always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also by manifested in our bodies” -2 Corinthians 4:8-10
Contrary to common belief, brokenness will not destroy you, but trying to keep it all together will. Maybe it’s time to let God have His way. When we cry out and let go of what we try to control, and let the pieces fall where they may, and let God put us back together as He sees fit because His is always faithful to do so much better than we could have ever imagined.
I’ve learned over the years that when it feels like I’m breaking that must be the sign of a breakthrough.
From Pity to Praise 