The Watered Soul

Finding Refreshment in the Word

The Value of Brokenness

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file0001387531880Broken toys, dishes, phones, pictures all find there way into the discarded pile. If we are honest much of what gets cast away does not even have to be broken but rather just considered old. But the very thing the world wants to avoid is what God desires most-brokenness.

The sacrifice you want is a broken spirit. A broken and repentant heart, O God, you will not despise. Psalms 51:17 (NLT)

In brokenness, I no longer see the need to portray that I have every thing right.

In brokenness, I acknowledge that I am not really the one in control.

I learned God-worship when my pride was shattered. Heart-shattered lives ready for love don’t for a moment escape God’s notice. Psalms 51:17 (The Message)

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Comments

  1. Sheri Larsen says

    So very true indeed. This post fits perfectly with my post of today and tomorrow, where I’m offering up a contest about being broken.

  3. yvonne lewis says

    A great B post, a broken spirit or heart is not the most pleasant of things but if we learn from the situation that makes a person a stronger one in the future,

    Hope this reaches you have had trouble getting through in the past week.
    Yvonne.

  7. LaVonne says

    One of the things I deal with most with clients is to change their view about being shattered. Pride really is deceitful. People will do all types of wrong and “enjoy” it, but then comes they fall. They will sit in my office and talk about ending it all because their pride is broken, but, as you pointed out, it is when pride falls and shatters that we can really see God working and cling to Him. The brokeness is often the openess that God needs to work in our lives. May God help us to see that He beautifies and blesses us in our brokeness.
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    • Wanda says

      Love your way with words LaVonne..”the brokenness is often the openness that God needs to work in our lives”.

  8. Sharon says

    Brokenness is a hard place to be – but it’s also a place where God comes near. Brokenness is when I find myself tucked under His mighty wings – sheltered from the storm of things I cannot control.

    It might be broken, but I still give Him my heart.

    GOD BLESS!

  9. Pam says

    This is a concept so many find hard to accept–that God would love them despite their brokenness. Thanks for the reminder, Wanda.

  10. Donna says

    Broken is never more than God can handle. He likes broken. He fixes broken. I like “I acknowledge that I am not really the one in control.” We forget that so easily.
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