Lent

In Your Brokenness, Hold On – A Blessing Is Coming

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READ JEREMIAH 18:1-12

MEDITATION: There is a clear pattern in the Bible that teaches us that brokenness precedes greatness:

Before Abraham became the father of many nations, he and Sarah were childless.
Before Jacob could be blessed, he was wounded by the angel in a wrestling match.
Before Joseph ruled Egypt, he was thrown into a pit, sold into slavery, and falsely imprisoned.
Before Job’s estate was doubled, he lost everything he had, including his family, his fortune, and his future.
Before Moses became the great deliverer, he lost his position, his possessions, and his popularity.
Before Joshua conquered the Promised Land, he went through the wilderness.
Before Samson crushed the Philistines, he was blinded, bound, and grinded.
Before David became king, he was renounced and ridiculed by his foes, and rejected by his friends.
Before Daniel could be used mightily, he had to spend the night in the lion’s den.
Before Hosea became a powerful spokesman for God, his wife betrayed him and returned to prostitution.
Before Peter preached 3,000 souls into the kingdom, he denied his Savior three times and went out and wept bitterly.
Before Paul brought the gospel to the Gentiles, he was blinded on the Damascus road.

Oswald Chambers commented, “When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship, or a new friendship—when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.” Sometimes God sees that our life is a mess and He breaks us so that He can remake us. Jeremiah 18:4, “Whenever the object of clay which he was making turned out badly in his hand, he tried again, making of the clay another object of whatever sort he pleased.”

GOD is able to mend: broken hearts, broken homes, broken hopes, broken dreams, broken health, broken happiness.

I am GLAD that our Lord specializes in healing broken things! Psalms 147:3 states, He “Heals the broken hearted, binds up their wounds.” To be BROKEN in heart, health, or hope, COULD be your big BREAK. For instance, God gives you His attention when your spirit is broken, more so than when your spirit is proud: Psalms 51:19, “My sacrifice, God, is a broken spirit; God, do not spurn a broken, humbled heart.”

The greatest people of the Bible were broken before God used them. Are you broken? It may be that God is going to use you. Don’t give up! God SPECIALIZES in broken things! HOLD ON! GOD’S BLESSING IS COMING! GOD HAS A BLESSING WITH YOUR NAME WRITTEN ALL OVER IT. Haggai 2:18-19,”Consider from this day forward: from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. From the day on which the temple of the LORD was founded, consider! Indeed, the seed has not sprouted, nor have the vine, the fig, the pomegranate and the olive tree yet borne. From this day, I will bless (YOU)! “

HOLD ON! GOD’S BLESSING IS COMING! GOD HAS A BLESSING (A MIRACLE) WITH YOUR NAME ON IT! Don’t give up when it seems that your situation has gone from bad to worse. HOLD ON! GOD’S BLESSING IS COMING! THERE’S A MIRACLE WITH YOUR NAME WRITTEN ALL OVER IT! No matter what you are going through in this life, just know this one thing: What God has for you, it is for you. You may not have everything that you desire or need right now. But just know and believe this one thing: What God has for you, it is for you.

What is God telling His people? What is God telling us? What is God telling you? Are you about to throw in the towel? What’s God telling you? Do you think God has forgotten about you? What’s God telling you about that predicament; that misfortune; that tragedy; that situation that you are passing through?

ACTION: Write down what God is telling you in your heart about your brokenness, despairing circumstances, predicaments, etc. Put these in your Prayer bowl.