The song goes "Brokenness, Brokenness is what I long for, Brokenness is what I need, Brokenness, Brokenness is what you want for me."
I can remember singing this chorus with my whole heart and really meaning it, and wondering at the same time why anyone would ask God to break them??
Are we really ready to be broken?? What does "to be broken" really mean??
We fight brokenness but God wants us to be broken, so that our only option is to call out his name, and he will make us whole again.
Any thoughts??
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that has partially been my summer... God has brought to light what a not so good person i was to my wife... this stripping down has been tough, but necessary i think... it is hard to be broken and humbled this way, but something tells me that i am not done... maturing has many different ways of happening i guess...
i have sung that song many times and been full of crap... it was what God wanted for me, but i did not long for it myself... anywho... there's my thoughts...
Maybe a reason we sing that is because if we know we're broken- then we know we can also be whole. and we know that the only reason we can be whole is by God. So, if we want to be broken= truely wanting God. If we were all put together and perfect, then why would we want God? (even though we would still need him). It puts us in a position that we know we are already broken- I have no clue where I'm going with this. Anyways- just something off the top of my head, not sure if I'm on the right track.
Yeah, that's awesome, thanks guys. I know for me 4 years ago God completely broke me into a million pieces and ever since, day by day, minute by minute he keeps putting back the pieces one by one, and everytime I get off track, or he sees another area that needs to be fixed, to be made whole, he breaks me again. Never to the point to where I was but enough to get me back on the right track. Awesome. He is an awesome God. He knows what we need exactly when we need it.
I think we're all broken. But it seems that in those dark places, Christ's light is brighter by contrast. I heard it said recently that sometimes God puts us on our backs so we'll look up to him. True!
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