PASSIONATE PURSUIT...BROKENNESS

​PASSIONATE PURSUIT…BROKENNESS
Psalms 34
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
 
Psalms 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
     The Lord stated to present yourselves as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable in His sight which is our reasonable service. That means that he wants all of us. He wants us with complete surrender to do His will and purpose. The thing is that most people want to wait to operate in their gifts and callings. They are waiting for the right moment based on the feeling of the flesh. However, Jesus wants to be the one to do the complete work on your life and to use you to impact the lives of others. So, today He says give Him the brokenness. He is the potter. We are the work of His hands. He can use you in your brokenness. He is a mender of broken hearts. He sets captives free. He is the same yesterday, today, and evermore.
     When Jesus Christ came and compelled His disciples to do a work with Him. He was empty and broken. He was empty of self and everything fleshly. Though He was a King and Savior, He humbled himself as a servant. There was fish and some loaves of bread that the Lord used to feed the multitudes. He met the natural needs as well as the spiritual needs. Nonetheless, He first “broke” the bread. He didn’t serve it “whole”. We are the walking Word, but it is in our brokenness and our emptiness that are most useful to the Lord. There was an account of Elisha and a woman who He instructed to go borrow some vessels, as many as you can. She brought the “collected emptiness” and then He began to pour and fill the vessels with oil, and it continued to run, and it sustained them. The brokenness, the emptiness, the desperation after God’s own heart is what changes lives to repentance. Deliverance takes place. Testimonies are established. Hearts are mended. The Lord says, them that are whole need not a physician…but the sick, the broken…the wounded…they have need of Him.
      The Lord had many disciples, but only a select few He took with Him into the mount. They went higher heights and deeper depths because they were willing to be broken and jack up. Jacob had a limp. Paul had been plagued with guilt for persecuting the Saints of God. Peter after having walked with God, denied Him. Yet, He said upon this rock will I build my Church. The wretchedness and every infirmity that causes us to be broken we give it to the Lord. We must take up our cross and follow hard after Him. We die daily, so that it is no longer I, but Christ that liveth within me. To live is Christ and to die is gain.