Broken Together

 Are you broken today?

Trick question, we all are every day. We live in an unfortunate world of imperfection, and it leaves us broken;

Angry
Depressed
Helpless
Anxious
Selfish

All the things that we don’t want to be.
But that’s not where our story ends, because God is the Great Healer! He comes to us in all our brokenness, in all the worst parts of us. He tells us that this is NOT who we are, it’s not who He created us to be. He pulls us out of the brokenness and into His marvelous light. He tells us that in our darkest moments, we will never be alone, we can come to Him and find rest.

 

“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood 
a holy nation, a people for His possession, 
so that you may proclaim the praises
of the One who called you out of darkness
into His marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2:9 

And 

“Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yolk upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

Matthew 11:28-29

As the church, we are called to show this to other people as well. We are meant to draw in the broken people while they are still broken and show them the love and light of God that comes to them even in the darkest places. 

 

“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.” 

1 Corinthians 1:1-2

Only when we come to people as they are, will they feel confident enough in love that they can be transformed by a God who doesn’t leave us in our brokenness.