When you think about being broken, it conjurers up feelings of somberness and feeling low. There are times in your life when you felt broken. It might have been the brokenness experienced when someone whom you thought you would marry ended the relationship. The loss of a good friend or relative that died and passed on to the eternal hereafter. And a hundred other experiences. The fact is that brokenness occurs in your life from time to time.
Although brokenness can be devastating, it does not have to end in sadness. For so many events in life, a devastating life occurrence can result in something good. Vance Havner explains what I mean, when he said, “God uses broken thing: broken soil and broken clouds to produce grain; broken grain to produce bread; broken bread to feed our bodies. He wants our stubbornness broken into humble obedience” (The Vance Havner Quote Book). For God to use you more fully, so often, the means He uses is to have something happen in your life to break you. At those times the only response you have is to look up.
Scripture records such an attitude: “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise” (Psalm 51:17; NASV). God is not interested in you going about doing one good deed after another. Mind you, the good deed is important but more important is your attitude in doing that good deed. God treasures your attitude of a “broken spirit.” As you enter God’s presence do so with a “broken and contrite heart.” That is what God honors.
When you feel broken, look up. Spend time in God’s presence. Pour your heart out to God! In those moments, a time to be broken results in getting God’s comfort!
