Brokenness is the state of dispare... Of man realizing he had no control, and has no control. His circumstances are beyond hiGs own abilities to change, and he is at another's mercy. A broken will results... Broken Heart. Giving up of the attempt to fight.
While this sounds horrible... It is also uniquely liberating. It is at the moment when we give up control... The very thing God is waiting for in order to change is.
You see, God is much more interested in the state of our heart than our circumstances. He could change any circumstance for better or worse in the blink of an eye. What he waits for is for us to reach a point of giving him authority to change our heart, by turning to him. By realizing that life is nothing without our creator, that we do not posses the ability to make our own heart clean, only he does.
So he uses circumstances to bring us to the point of Brokenness.... That moment where we give up trying under our own power and ask him to take over. That's what he wants. God respects or wishes and as long as we think we can do it alone, he stands back and watches us with tears in his eyes for our self inflicted pain. He builds hedges around us to protect us from unseen catastrophes. But he leaves us to our own devices until we reach Brokenness. We have free will. He honors that.
So when things look black, bleak, impossible, there is but one things to do... Realize that we can not fix what is really wrong (the condition of our heart) and turn to God's grace, mercy, and power to take over. Recognize that man is hopelessly deceitful and evil, and we need our redeemer to change that.
Then, our darkest hour of Brokenness becomes our greatest victory. Then pace, maturity, strength, true cleanliness from God comes in and fills us from the inside out.
Or... If we don't reach Brokenness... We just have trouble. And it will get worse. God let's us go through waves of trouble, each greater than the last, to bring us to Brokenness where he can save us. At any wave we can either turn to him, or keep trying ourself. We either admit Brokenness or just have more trouble.
God is good, he loves each of us, more than we love ourself. He is working with and waiting for each of us to reach a point where we turn to him with no conditions, no demands, nothing left but openess to his love and direction.
Brokenness... Embrace it, let it be the victory we so desperately need. Let the darkness turn into light in the leave that only God can give. He waits, even now.
UPDATE:after writing this, I ran across this blog from one of the few preachers I respect fully... David Wilkerson. It speaks on this subject well. Copied in here from this link
http://sermons.worldchallenge.org/zh-hans/node/30272
“For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills . . . a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it. . . . Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God . . . lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses . . . and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied . . . then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage . . . and thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth” (Deuteronomy 8:7-14, 17)).
The Lord is speaking here not only to Israel but to us today. The purpose of their test in the wilderness was never in doubt: it was “that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end” (Deuteronomy 8:16). He had to teach Israel how to handle all the goodness He was about to pour out upon them. And God will test us the same way He did them.
You see, although the children of Israel were blood-secured and delivered, supernaturally guided and the object of God’s love and miracle-working power, they lacked one thing: They were not dependent upon God!
The blood can cover your sins, but it does not make you dependent on Him. Miracles can deliver you from Satan’s power, but they can’t make you dependent. You can be led by God and still not lean wholly upon the Lord.
God has to strip us of all self-assurance and destroy all that remains of self-righteousness, spiritual pride and boasting. He must (and He does) humiliate all who are destined to inherit His great spiritual blessings.
He will take a Saul of Tarsus—self-assured, self-righteous, consumed with a knowledge of the Scriptures, full of God’s zeal, ready to die for Jehovah—and strike him blind! Saul had to be humiliated before the world, led around like a child and waiting helplessly for days, until God moved. He was humiliated to a point of total dependence!
http://sermons.worldchallenge.org/zh-hans/node/30272
http://sermons.worldchallenge.org/zh-hans/node/30272
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