A Broken Spirit
Here lately I have somehow found a way to mess up almost everything I touch. I can't seem to keep my big mouth closed and have been so discouraging! I am so mad at myself, I have been trying to do life on my own, without God. I have kept Him at a safe distance, only to go to Him with my concerns and desires rather than in praise and thanksgiving.
I think I have reached a place of brokenness, and I am excited about it! I have thought that brokenness meant being a wimp, suffering from an inferiority complex, or having a case of low self esteem. Those thoughts are so far from the truth, true brokenness is when God strips us of self sufficiency to the extent that we've no strength left to fix ourselves. So basically - when God is all you have, God is all you need!
It breaks me that I have been disobedient to Him. I have become so thankful that God will do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to break us of our self sufficiency so the life of Jesus can be demonstrated through us. But we determine how long that process takes, by our submission or resistance. I have been resistant. I have come to believe that sometimes God has to take us down before He can raise up! Moses was called the meekest man on earth, but it took forty years of living as a shepherd in the wilderness to detox him of pride and get him submitted to God.
God is at His strongest in us when we are at our weakest. When Paul discovered that God's power in his life was tied to the thorn that afflicted him, he responded, "For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Corinthians 12:10
I think I have reached a place of brokenness, and I am excited about it! I have thought that brokenness meant being a wimp, suffering from an inferiority complex, or having a case of low self esteem. Those thoughts are so far from the truth, true brokenness is when God strips us of self sufficiency to the extent that we've no strength left to fix ourselves. So basically - when God is all you have, God is all you need!
It breaks me that I have been disobedient to Him. I have become so thankful that God will do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to break us of our self sufficiency so the life of Jesus can be demonstrated through us. But we determine how long that process takes, by our submission or resistance. I have been resistant. I have come to believe that sometimes God has to take us down before He can raise up! Moses was called the meekest man on earth, but it took forty years of living as a shepherd in the wilderness to detox him of pride and get him submitted to God.
God is at His strongest in us when we are at our weakest. When Paul discovered that God's power in his life was tied to the thorn that afflicted him, he responded, "For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Corinthians 12:10
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