Broken

I am still on my journey to become more like Christ. Boy a journey I have been on lately. Something I remembered about Jesus lately is that He was broken. He was broken in many ways. His heart was broken for the sins of the people. He was saddened by what this world had become. His heart was breaking for us and still does.

Jesus was also broken before He died. He cried out to God asking Him to take the cup from him 3 different times. (Matthew 26:36-46) Even though He was broken and crying out to God to take away what He was going to have to do, He also said "Your will be done" (verse 42)

Jesus was also physically broken for us. His blood was shed and his body was broken was for us. He knew He was going to have to die for us and came to this earth anyway. At the passover He told His disciples what was going to happen. (Matthew 26:26-30) Then He died a physical death for us!! (Matthew 27:27-56) But He is risen and now we can live eternally with Him and have forgiveness of sins and salvation! (Matthew 28:1-10)

Jesus was broken in many different ways. He was broken emotionally, spiritually, and physically. When I started this journey to learn more about Jesus and to become more like Him I asked the Lord to break me, grow me, and deepen our relationship. I said that in my first post about wanting to go deep with Jesus. Let me tell you, He is giving me what I asked for. I have been broken in many ways lately. I have been broken mainly emotionally and spiritually. Jesus has shown me things that have broken my heart. He has taken me to points where I am not comfortable and I just dont like. He has broken me spiritually and shown me where I am weak and where I need to go. And let me tell you, it has been hard. It has not been easy. But through it I am growing. I am learning to trust like I have never done before. I am learning to daily surrender my life to Him and rely on Him constantly. I am learning to seek Him first and when things are not going well to look to Him. I am learning that even though we have to go through hard times, it makes us stronger in Christ. I am going through a time where Satan likes to attack me at every corner every second He can. I am learning to shield myself with Christ and His word. Nothing can get through that shield.

It has been a tough experience. I am not going to say I enjoy it because I dont. But I know what I am learning through it is priceless. Because of that I am thankful. Am I ready to be out of this "storm"??? Yes! I feel as though I am getting there. It takes time and God as my partner to get there. Together we will do it! I am going to be just fine!! I will make it through and I already feel stronger than I did when I started this journey and that was my prayer, so I am thankful for that! God will never give us more than we can handle. It may not always be fun to handle it, but we can handle it with Him!

How are you broken today?? How are you leaning on God in your brokeness?? Will you cry out to God like Jesus did?? Or will you try to lean on yourself??

Have a great day!