BROKEN

Job 17:1 (NIV) “My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.”

Psalm 34:17-19 (NIV) “The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. The righteous person may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all …”.

Psalm 147:3 (NIV) “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”

Psalm 37:16-18 (NIV) “Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked; for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous. The blameless spend their days under the Lord’s care, and their inheritance will endure forever.”

BROKEN (defined) - Crushed by grief; financially ruined; bankrupt; having been violated.

BROKENHEARTED (defined) - Overwhelmed by grief or disappointment; grievously sad; full of sorrow.

There are times in every persons’ life when circumstances become too difficult to bear. I honestly don’t know what non-believers do at a time like that. I suppose they do all that they know to do, which would be to rely on their own accumulated mental faculties and physical abilities to overcome or endure their brokenness. However, a person’s natural mental and physical capabilities are limited to what knowledge they have acquired.

A believer in Almighty God is able to tap into the infinite resources available to them through their Heavenly Father. In the various scriptures above we see Job, who of all men had more than his share of grief, yet in spite of his broken state, in the end continued to believe in His God to deliver him. The Psalmist reveals to us that the Lord God is close to those who are broken and grief stricken and delivers them from their troubles. Being Omnipotent (all-powerful), our God has limitless resources of power at His disposal to bring us through our brokenness to the other side of it.

One thought that should not be lost in all the discussion about being broken is that God, who by His very nature controls all things, has either caused or allowed that which you are now experiencing for a specific purpose. Some folks may have difficulty accepted that God would allow something evil or bad to occur, but look at it this way: If something occurred without God’s knowledge or was out of His control, then how could He be who He says He is. He would be flawed. Something was beyond His control.

Romans 8:28 (NKJV) “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”

I choose to believe that God causes or allows things for a specific purpose. That doesn’t make sense to the logical mind, but there isn’t a whole lot in God’s economy that makes sense to the logical mind. God’s whole plan of salvation boggles the logical mind. So whatever state you find yourself; whether it be grief stricken, sorrowful or crushed in spirit, know that your Heavenly Father is mindful of your circumstances and is working to bring you through it to the other side. Yield to His Spirit and be healed. Don’t look at those things around you and thus sink as Peter did on the Sea of Galilee, but rather re-focus mind, heart and spirit on your God and He will bring you peace and comfort in the midst of your chaos and pain.

WALK WITH THE KING TODAY AND BE BLESSING!!!