Psa. 51:17 The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.

Today I want to share with you the importance of being broken before God. I’m not talking about broken as a state of depreciation, but broken as a state of advancement in the Kingdom of God.

In the Nancy Demoss book entitled: Brokenness: The Heart God Revives, she writes, “This generation is being programmed to pursue happiness, positive self-images, and cures for our hurt feelings and damaged psyches, but God is not as interested in those ends as we are - God is more committed to making us holy, than making us happy.”

Many years ago, I read a profound statement in Watchman Nee’s book: The Normal Christian Life, that changed my life and I have never forgotten it goes like this: “There is only one pathway to holiness, and that is the pathway of brokenness.”

Most people including Christians think of brokenness as an emotional state of incapacitation, when in reality, brokenness is not how we feel, brokenness is a choice much like happiness, that we have to make! We have the tendency to see brokenness as God’s abandonment of us, when in fact, brokenness describes God’s activity in our lives!

God desires for us to get to a place of brokenness so that we may see what we’ve never seen before. A place where the eyes see the invisible, ears hear the inaudible, and minds conceive the inconceivable. That can and will only happen as believers reach a state of brokenness before God. You need to understand that God can not and will not use an unbroken spirit.

Prayer focus: Help to stay broken before you so that I can be used by you!