Breaking It All The Way Down…
Psalm 51:16-17Amplified Bible (AMP)
16For You delight not in sacrifice, or else would I give it; You find no pleasure in burnt offering. 17My 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.
My life has been nothing short of miracles, and God’s mercies covering me. As I thought over my life and I swapped stories with my best friend, we both came to realize that what we had gone through was not to be looked at or remembered with sadness, but understanding that God kept us both. Looking over our lives we realized that God had allowed some things to break us, to destroy what we had made of ourselves in order so that God could construct in us what He designed to benefit His Kingdom and for Him to get the Glory. In those moments as we shared we realized our lives were not the tragedy that so many had tried to attach and label it as, but instead it was an exhibition of the move of God to get us to a better place. A place of anointing, blessing and God’s perfect will and design!
Many times we identify things that are setbacks, painful incidents, things that break us and things that were contrary to what we wanted or asked for as a failure, but in fact they are not…They are far from it, they are the catalysis by which God is moving us to a new season and different place in Him. All too often we identify success by the labels that the world has attached which is materialism. But God identifies success by the heart of a person, the spirit of a person and their obedience to follow. Do not get me wrong I am not saying there is ANYTHING wrong with monetary success, or material things, but they should not be the primary focus that we live for, we were created first and foremost to bring Glory to God and we are created unto Good Works, His way, not our own. If we would learn to apply obedience we often would not have to sacrifice, but it is when we don’t that we will see setbacks or things that require us to be flushed, broken, reworked or rerouted. Things that break us can be a positive thing if we have prospective and ask God what it is really all about and if we say that we trust Him, we understand that He will never do anything to harm us, but He will allow things to bring about correction and in some cases get us out of things we should have never entered into in the first place. We lack the understanding that what we had or the way that we were living was harming us and hurting us far more than what God had allowed into our lives to bring us to a point of realizing that being broken was the only way to become better. When a clay vessel is marred or deformed while still upon the potter’s wheel, the potter will crush the vessel and remold and reshape it, in order for it to become the masterpiece the vessel that He desires it to become; in order for it to become the vessel in which He had envisioned, and for the use He intended.
I found in my brokenness that is when God has not only comforted me, but He has showed me His glory. He has given me this type of peace that cannot be found on the happiest days that I created. When I have been broken before God, it is then that I have become usable and a vessel that God could fill up, because I have been emptied out of all of the things that I thought were important for the things God deemed important. I have noticed that being broken all the way down and understanding that all I am needs to be submitted to God means that God can build me back up in such a way that there is NO GLORY that can be obtained by man or by myself. I can truly say, and all can truly recognize if it had not been for the Lord on my side where would I be! If God had not done this, it would never have been done! The best oil that we can find always comes from a source that first must be crushed, it is then the oil or in our case the anointing is released, and it becomes of benefit to others. As long as it is contained it is no use to anyone….
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