Broken For A Purpose

What does it mean to be broken? The dictionary says it means to be reduced to fragments and the bible says it means to be violated by transgression.  Anyway you look at it broken does not necessarily represent a good thing. Something that has been broken has been distorted from its original state and must be repaired or restored back to normal. Let’s be honest most of the time when something is broken we want to get rid of it. What if God had the same mentality? What if God threw us away when life situations leave us broken? Believe me I know what it is to be broken. I know what it is to be all alone. I know how it feels to think that no one cares about you. I know how it feels to be in such a dark place where you feel that God is so far away that he can’t hear you. My sister sometimes you may find yourself in a corner and it looks as if all hope is gone. You feel all alone in the mist of your situation. You’re broken and ashamed… Well don’t be because God is waiting for you to call on him, he is waiting to use you just where you are.  All you have to do is cry out like the psalmist did in psalm 51:17

 My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise. Psalm 51:17 AMP.

The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit
That is humbled under a sense of sin; has true repentance for it; is smitten, wounded, and broken with it, by the word of God in the hand of the Spirit, which is a hammer to break the rock in pieces; and that not merely in a legal, but in an evangelical way; grieving for sin as committed against a God of love; broken and melted down under a sense of it, in a view of pardoning grace; and mourning for it, while beholding a pierced and wounded Savior : the sacrifices of such a broken heart and contrite spirit are the sacrifices God desires, approves, accepts of, and delights in;

a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise;
but regard, and receive with pleasure; (He will regard the plea of the destitute and will not despise their prayer. Psalms 102:17 ); the Lord binds up and heals such broken hearts and spirits, (He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds [curing their pains and their sorrows]. Psalms 147:3 ) ( Isaiah 61:1 ) ; he is nigh to such persons, looks upon them, has respect unto them, and comes and dwells among them, (The Lord is close to those who are of a broken heart and saves such as are crushed with sorrow for sin and are humbly and thoroughly penitent. Psalms 34:18 ) (For all these things My hand has made, and so all these things have come into being [by and for Me], says the Lord. But this is the man to whom I will look and have regard: he who is humble and of a broken or wounded spirit, and who trembles at My word and reveres My commands. Isaiah 66:2 ) (For thus says the high and lofty One--He Who inhabits eternity, Whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, but with him also who is of a thoroughly penitent and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the thoroughly penitent [bruised with sorrow for sin]. Isaiah 57:15 ).

Never let your situation or circumstances dictate to you if you are worthy of God’s Love. The devil is a Liar! I promise you that when you call on God when you’re broken it  tugs on his heart the most, because God wants a broken spirit and contrite heart. You can never please God by outward actions no matter how good they are if your inward heart and attitude is not right. God is please with humility. We all sin and come short of his glory but we if you fall down my sister you have to get up and keep going; keeping your eyes fixed on God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit!  Let the Holy Trinity be your guide. If you are asking how do I know… I know because I gave God my broken heart and my life has never been the same. Praise God!