Broken Pieces

Last night I was listening to a song that really inspired me to write this post.As I was siting and watching this music video, I was touched at how different people wrote things that where broken in their lives.I could relate to many of these things as I am currently going through it or I went through it at some time.It made me realize that we all have broken pieces in our lives.

This line of thought took me back to a sermon I heard just a year ago,by pastor Bill Wilson.Many times we are plagued by the broken pieces in our lives,we try to hide it from the world and wrongly believe that we are the only ones that have these struggles.We are often ashamed  of them and we convince ourselves that we are not good enough Christians if we have these struggles.

I struggle a lot with the broken pieces of my life,most of the time I am not to sure what to do with it,if they will ever be fixed.I beat myself up for being so broken and wonder how can God use me with all these broken pieces. I wonder why I am not whole, when I am constantly bombarded with sermon upon sermon of wholeness in Christ.

Some of us have more broken pieces than others and we try so hard to keep it together every time a new crack appears.I have learned that God loves me despite my brokenness,He wants to use me despite the cracks and imperfections that seem to multiply by the day.God did not call me be to be whole first before I am able to serve Him.He knows every broken piece and as I serve and seek Him,he repairs those pieces without me even noticing.Sometimes He will use that broken piece to move you from  one season to the next.

Many times we look at other Christians lives and wonder how they have it all together?why they are able to be so prefect?how following God seems so easy to them.The thing is there is no perfect Christian,there is no one that has it easy,we all have broken pieces,but the question is what we choose to exalt in our lives;The brokenness or Christ?

The enemy wants us to dwell on our broken pieces so that we feel unworthy of God's love and blessings.When we feel unworthy of God's love we feel unworthy to serve Him.Many times as a leader in church I questioned my capabilities.I felt unworthy of the position I held,I felt unworthy of praying and helping someone when I myself had so many broken pieces.I asked God "How can you trust me with your sheep when I am so broken?".We need to move away from our own brokenness and help others with theirs,in the process we give God an opportunity to heal us.

I have come to realize I will always have some or other broken piece ,but that's fine. I am not defined by my brokenness I am defined by God who has called me righteous.I am not less righteous today than I was yesterday because of my broken pieces.God has called me righteous and that is finale.Because I am righteous I can live in the inheritance of Christ,I can accomplish what he has called me to do.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NKJV)
" For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."

Whether you are struggling with the guilt of abortion, pornography, fornication,abuser,abused,murder,lies,deceit,self worth,theft, it could be anything,know that God loves you despite it all.Continue to seek God even in your brokenness,he is mighty to save and His love covers a multitude of sin(I will speak about love is not condoning sin in a later post).

Don't let the enemy steal your joy, but know that our joy comes from our salvation in Jesus Christ.God does not discard the broken,he is always ready to use you if only you are willing.

David was a broken man and he knew it, but God called Him a man after His own heart. David did not let his brokenness stop him from earnestly seeking God.

Psalm 34:18 

"The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit."

Psalm 51:17 

"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise."

Psalm 147:3

"He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds."

Let our brokenness not take us away from the work of God

Acts 20:24 

"But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God"

Galatians 2:20

"I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."