Broken for Who?

 

All of us go through things in life that shake us to our core. They rock us and make us feel like everything we thought about ourselves is no longer true. We don’t know who we are because we used to base it on no longer exists. We get BROKEN! Broken to a point where we no longer recognize ourselves no matter how many times we look in the mirror. It could have been from a bad relationship, the loss of a child, the layoff from your job, the folding of your business, the end of a friendship or even something as tragic as a rape or another betrayal of your trust.

Broken: having been fractured or damaged and no longer in one piece or in working order

Your life is in shambles and you can’t even locate all of the pieces to put them back together again. You can barely compose yourself to get out of bed every day to bathe yourself and haven’t processed how you will deal with other people on a daily basis. Life has a way of breaking you so much that you have even forgotten how to love yourself. You just want some relief from the blessing the brokenness has caused. Your heart hurts and you think even a bandage will make a difference. So that’s what you look for because true healing seems impossible.

You look for the love of another person who is willing to accept all of your broken pieces and put you back together again.  But what you and the other person don’t realize is that you have now given them an impossible job. They can’t fix you because they didn’t break or create you. A person can’t touch deep enough to heal your heart because they can’t even figure out how to get there without causing more damage to you or hurting themselves. The reality is that a broken person is damaged, fragile, and sharp. Broken doesn’t work properly until repaired.

Those repairs aren’t to be made by another person, but by the Manufacturer that knows the specifications of your heart.

Psalm 147:3-5 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. 4 He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. 5 Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit.

What baffles man is simple to God. Your brokenness activates His faithfulness. He soothes those sharp edges and knows how to repair you in a way that makes you even better than before. Only God can take your broken self and give you beauty for what was taken from you. Even the person/pace/thing that caused you to break can’t restore you to your original conditions. They don’t have the ability to get you in working order because they didn’t design you. They don’t know what God had in mind when He created you.

We attempt to take our broken pieces to people and expect for them to make us whole. They can’t make sense of what they didn’t create. A relationship/friendship between two whole people is difficult enough but when one of them is broken, it’s deadly. The wounds they’re carrying are lethal enough to cut someone much deeper than they’ve already been hurt.

Take your burdens to the altar and leave them there, that’s where they belong!

 
With All My Love,
Mrs. Truscott