This week at Timberline Pastor Dary really challenged all of us in seeing our brokenness in a different light. Allyson and I have experienced moments of extreme brokenness as individuals before we were married and also as a married couple. One thing Dary said really made me think; He said that brokenness forces introspection and when we get burned we are careful not to get burned again. This obviously makes sense, who wants to be burned a second time?
However the danger in this is that it can cause us to be frozen in fear rather than move forward in confidence. The word courage does not mean without fear, courage can be defined as moving forward when you are scared. There have been times in my life that I felt like such a coward because of my fear, but I am glad to say that in SOME situations (sadly not all) I have been able to move forward in spite of that fear. What about you? Do you find yourself frozen with fear because of past hurt, pain or brokenness?
If I have learned anything about a relationship with God, its that God is a God of Hope. Hope is something that we all look towards, for many of us (Whether we know it or not) it is hope that keeps us moving forward in life. Barak Obama was elected president of the United States mainly because of the message of Hope that he preached during the election. Setting political agendas aside I think that his campaign exposed something in our culture, people are looking for hope in life. There are so many things that cause us to loose hope, these are real things and it would be foolish to minimize them by saying a cliche like “Keep Hope Alive” or “Everything happens for a reason”. The reality is that somethings are senseless and others sometimes do things that effect Innocent people and causes them to loose hope in certain situations (Financial, relational, emotional, physical, etc…). HOWEVER, there is hope in life. Jesus himself preached a message of Hope to a generation of people and that message continues to spark hearts all over the world.
Brokenness can cause you to see things in a different light, and that can be a good thing. Don’t let brokeness keep you from moving forward. “Do not loose heart… I have overcome the world” (Jesus of Nazareth). What a great promise to rest in.
Let Love Live
