The Broken

Brokenness is a good thing.  A very good thing.  Without realizing it, I've been learning this for years.  I'm gonna share some quotes from songs, books, & devotionals.  

I want to say to all: surrender to the breaking

"God breaks us, then heals us, then uses us." -me

"Delayed answers often set the heart searching itself & so lead to contrition & spiritual reformation: Deadly blows are then struck at our corruption, & the sinful images are cleansed. The great danger is that men should faint and miss the blessing." devotional 

"When we behold His holiness, we see in that instant our unholiness.  His glory reveals our ruin, His purity, our vanity, His light our shadows. God bursts forth in radiance, & we cry out for the rocks to fall on us. So before joy comes sorrow.  Before cleanness comes shame. Before we can ever rest in the holiness of God, first we must become undone by it." -MB

"God's plan for our lives will never be fulfilled until we are broken." -ZP 

"Only You can see the good in broken things You took my heart of stone & made it home" -BD 

"He tears me down..He breaks me.." Job 19:10 

"Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but He will heal us: He has injured us be He will bind up our wounds. God has wounded, & God will heal." Deut. 32:39 

God says.. "in your misery you will earnestly seek me" Hosea 5:15

"It was when Jesus took the five loaves and broke them, that the bread was multiplied in the very act of breaking, sufficient to feed five thousand. It was when Mary broke her beautiful alabaster box, rendering it henceforth useless, that the pent-up perfume filled the house. It was when Jesus allowed His precious body to be broken to pieces by thorns and nails and spear, that His inner life was poured out, like a crystal ocean, for thirsty sinners to drink and live.  It is when a beautiful grain of corn is broken up in the earth by DEATH, that its inner heart sprouts forth and bears hundreds of other grains. And thus, on and on, through all history, and all biography, and all vegetation, and all spiritual life, God must have broken things." devotional