Broken Things #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT

Broken Things #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT

Psalm 34:18, "The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit."

Why God Prefers Broken Things

Principle fifteen of thirty: Brokenness is God's requirement for maximum usefulness.

Nobody volunteers to be broken. We pray for strength, we plan for success, and we work to keep every piece of life neatly in place. Yet Scripture keeps telling a different story, one in which God draws nearest not to the strong but to the shattered. The psalmist writes in Psalm 34:18, "The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit." After his own failure, David learned the same lesson and set it down in Psalm 51:17, "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise."

Think of a grain of wheat. Whole and unbroken, it is only a seed in a jar, feeding no one. But once it falls into the ground and dies, Jesus says in John 12:24, it brings forth much fruit. Brokenness is not the end of usefulness. It is the doorway to it. God does not waste the breaking. He uses it to release what pride kept locked up inside.

Here is how to answer when life breaks you.

First, stop hiding the cracks. We polish our image and pretend the pieces are still together, but God cannot heal what we refuse to admit is broken. Bring Him the whole mess honestly. A contrite heart is no liability in His presence. It is the very sacrifice He accepts.

Second, let God keep the pieces. When we try to glue our lives back together ourselves, the result is brittle and self made. Surrender the fragments to the hands that formed you and let Him do the repair. He will not reassemble you into the same vessel. He will build something better.

Third, minister from the wound, not only after it is healed. Your greatest ministry will flow from the very place you were broken. The one who has walked through the valley carries a compassion no sermon can supply. Do not wait until you feel whole to be useful. Let God use you while the cracks are still showing.

Remember Paul, who begged God to remove his thorn and heard instead, "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:9). Your weakness is not your disqualification. It is your qualification, for it is there that His strength appears.

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