What if brokenness is
the pathway to a God-centered life? What if the world has trained us to win, so
much so that we push God out of our lives unaware? What if we have an unhealthy
view of what it means to lose? Is not Satan the one who enticed mankind so that
their own selfishness would lead them away from God and was it not Satan that
used that selfishness to manipulate and deceive for his own purposes in the
garden? Has not Satan vowed to turn people away from God and are we not used as
pawns to be like arrows from the enemy of God shot at the heart of God?
If this is true than
the view our flesh has of what a winner looks like is centered in selfishness and
pride and we are consumed with it so much that the enemy (Satan) hardly has to
lift a finger and therefore is able to be concerned with more important things
such as governments and world powers. As a matter of fact his investment of
planting the ideal of needing to win at everything is like you and I having a
savings account at the bank, in that if we leave it alone we can watch it pay
back with interest. Do you think the hunter does not know the purpose of the
trap he sets and do you think he does not consider where he places it knowing
where the prey will come and go?
Jesus said this, John
15:20 KJV Remember the word that I said
unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me,
they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours
also.
Was Jesus not broken
and was not this brokenness that which allowed Him to feel our infirmities, our
sorrows, and our pain?
Hebrews 4:15 KJV For we have not an high priest which cannot
be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted
like as we are, yet without sin.
Mark 2:17 KJV When Jesus heard it, he saith unto
them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are
sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
If Jesus, our Lord,
went through these things so that He might minister to the needy then how much
more do we need to go through the same? How much more do we need to understand
the reason He came to die for the outcast, the marginalized, and those which
the world has placed a scarlet letter around their necks? Which allows us to do
the most for God – us being the best Christian we can be by developing our
strengths or being broken so that God’s strength can be made known? One points
to us the other points to God!
Matthew 19:26 KJV But Jesus beheld them, and said unto
them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
If we don’t want the
limitations of this flesh then we have to follow Jesus and if we follow Jesus
we must know what it means to be broken, as He was broken. In this our own
relationship with Him becomes more real, more important, and ever present. We
look at the heroes of the faith, many being martyred, and think what it would
be like to have their faith but when God leads us in that direction we resist
because of our unwillingness to be broken. Therefore, without this important
step our life as a “Christian” is dull and mundane – we live a good moral life
but without the impact of someone surrendered fully to God.
