broken
Every time you are discouraged, every time you want to give up, every time you are in conflict with someone, every time there is no peace in your heart, you are troubled and distressed, there is restlessness and all those things, you must understand — the Lord is trying to bring you to the place of brokenness. We become frustrated and upset over our circumstances because we have yet to truly experience what it means to just give up, to become like Christ, like a worm, and totally give up our rights. The cross of Christ continues to work, but you are resisting it.The way of peace, the way to have a striveless life out of which rivers of living water flow, only comes through our being broken.
Excerpt taken from “The Beauty of Christ through Brokenness” by K.P. Yohannan.
Don’t think that by reading that one excerpt that you’ve gotten the whole meaning of the book! This book is a book that every believer should have on their nightstand and continually read and pray “Lord, teach me to bring death to my own selfish ambitions, my ways, my rights, my reputation, my interests; so that Christ’s life will be manifest through me.”
Gosh, I am by no means anywhere near that. My own desires and ambitions take precedence over Christ’s almost everyday! I need to be broken… everyday.
“He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” – John 12:25
hmmm…