July 30, 2011 with 6 Comments

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Broken

Nobody likes things that are broken.

I accidentally broke the fancy toothbrush holder at my parents house this week. I picked up the pieces and threw them out quickly, and didn’t tell anybody. (Of course my mother just found out so I’ll have to deal with her soon.)

It doesn’t matter if it’s a $5 trinket or the new washing machine, there’s something painful about finding out something is broken.

It’s easier to hide the evidence under the rug. It’s easier to act like it never happened. It’s easier to fix it quickly and gloss over what broke it in the first place.

The church is full of broken people – lives that have been marred by sin, and wrong choices. It hurts to hear their stories. It hurts to watch the breaking. It hurts to try to put the pieces back together.

Fortunately, God is into brokenness.

In Isaiah 66:2 He says “But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is broken and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.”

If you feel like you’re broken stop trying to hide. Stop trying to cover up the mess, or act like it never happened. Stop trying to make excuses, or look for a quick fix.

If you feel like you’re broken, just wait. God is into healing.

He takes up what’s broken and makes something beautiful out of it.

You just wait and see.

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  • Denise Archambault

    I so often look at suffering and brokenness as things that happen apart from God and outside of the bounds of His plan….but scripture tells a story of brokenness and suffering being very much a part of what God uses to carve out a pathway to freedom in Christ.Thanks for the beautiful reminder Lina.

  • Linda

    It took me a while to admit I was broken….who wants to admit that? I tried to hide it, tried to cover it up..tried to fill it with other things…but that’s exhausting! The Lord used a speaker on a retreat to show me just how broken I was, but how much the Lord wanted to build me into something way beyond what I could even think of. People think broken is bad…for me, I will always be thankful to the Lord…the only answer for the broken.

  • Gina

    Morning. I was broken. Some how God did get me to harvest. I met you and a bunch of amazing people. You guided me to my baptism and actually came.God is changing my life. So are you and your lectures. I thank-you for that! Happy Sat Dr. :) :) :)

  • Amber

    I thank God for fixing the brokeness in my life! I feel so bless to have the people in my life who keep me accountable.

  • RAM

    What amazes me about our God is that He loves us in our brokeness and when He heals us; He makes us into something more beautiful than we could have ever imagined.

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    Indeed He does.css