Forty-Day Immersion: Day 23

The world is unprincipled. It’s dog-eat-dog out there! The world doesn’t fight fair. But we don’t live or fight our battles that way - never have and never will. 10:4 The tools of our trade aren’t for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. 10:5 We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. 10:6 Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity. 2 Corinthians 10:3-6, The Message

Day 23

We really are stronger in the broken parts.

Doctors believe that its almost impossible to break a bone at the same spot where it was been broken before. Apparently God has created us to be physiologically stronger where we’ve been broken.

I think He’s done it for us spiritually, too.

Every time I’ve been truly broken, I’ve come back stronger. The length of the comeback varies, but I think we always get back to the point where we were really hammered before, a point that it had been impossible for us to pass – and then we get past it.

The good news is that when He breaks us, He always know exactly how to do it and to what extent.

The good news is that when he breaks us, it is always for a special point of impact in the future, which we would not have been able to reach or effect without having been broken.

The good news is that whatever it is He breaks, He also takes on the responsibility of healing, rehabilitating and restoring.

The bad news?

The good news about the bad news is that there isn’t any. Bad news, that is.

A broken and restored heart is capable of things that were impossible for it to do, to feel, to know, before His blessing of broken-ness.

We’re better off broken.