Brokenness

Have you ever longed for more of God? Have you ever simply stopped and evaluated yourself? Your spirituality? Your relationship with God? Just where you stand? And in so doing, find yourself dissatisfied with yourself, your personal progress? Then from deep within, you cry for more or God. You cry not for His judgment, but you cry for His mercy. Not His scolding but His love. Not His permissiveness but His love, His power, His anointing. Have you ever simply cried, "Lord, I need less of me and more of you?" And in so doing, you found yourself broken before God?

Brokenness is a place where God dwells. Brokenness is a place where God works. Brokenness is a place where the power of God's presence resides. It is a hard place to be, but a necessary place to live. It is a tough place to reach, but it is a place of renewal, revival, and a place of refreshing. It is a place of recognizing our total need of Him.

God dwells with the "broken and contrite" of heart. God resists the proud but accepts the humble. May we reach this place in Christ Jesus. This place where we "are nothing" and He is "everything." This place where our insufficiency is suddenly swallowed up in His sufficiency.

Remember, it is a journey, not a destination!

This is today,

Pastor Gary