Welcome to this devotional time day number one.
Our brokenness,
God's beginning.
God uses broken things.
It takes broken soil to produce a crop,
Broken clouds to give rain,
Broken grain to give bread,
Broken bread to give strength.
It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume.
It is Peter weeping bitterly who returns to greater power than ever.
Quote from Vence Havner.
Meditation.
Sometimes life leaves us raw and broken.
It might be that our physical bodies are weakened or our emotional or spiritual bodies are going through turmoil.
I noticed that when I feel thin-skinned or when I feel broken I develop more compassion towards others who go through times of brokenness.
Though we feel at times that something in us is dying,
Often we are more broken open than we are destroyed.
Being broken open can sometimes mean receiving new strength or becoming able to give more of ourselves to others than ever before.
Sometimes when we think we are dying,
God is taking us to the next level.
Sometimes after our bodies,
Minds or spirits shut down and say enough,
We experience the gift of new life.
At the beginning of this new year,
Let us embrace those times of brokenness as God preparing to do a new thing in our life.
In 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verse 16 it says,
Therefore we do not lose heart,
But though our outer man or woman are decaying,
Yet our inner man or woman are being renewed day by day.
I'm saying a prayer.
God I pray for courage and a new perspective.
Sometimes when I come to my wits end,
It is just your beginning with me.
When I think that life as I know it is over,
You take my endings and transform them in ways I could not imagine.
I'm amazed that my human brokenness is your opportunity.
Speak to me in new ways and renew my body,
My mind and my spirit.
Amen.
