4.25-God help me I'm broken.

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Brokenness

If you wear a mask over yourself to cover up your hurt and pain, the weight of the mask itself is suffocating.

We wear a mask what ultimately gets masked is the power of Jesus Christ in our lives.

But when we get real and say

I am Jacob wrestling with God.

In our unmasked state our weaknesses are clear and Christ is revealed as our strength.

Jesus takes the broken shards of our lives and makes a mosaic of grace.

He will press our wounds down into his wounds.  Thomas doubts but Jesus is close to allow him to press his doubts down into his wounds.

There is no place more important to live an honest, broken life than in our family life.

Our brokenness before our children shows them a safe space for us all to take our real selves to the cross.

We our children it’s not that we want get it wrong, but what are we going to do with it afterward.

“Mama” (or “Daddy”) messed it up, I’m going back to Jesus.

In the broken places God is making abundance.

Broken loaves get multiplied.

Broken seeds produce fruit.   Yield and produce comes from being broken open down in the dark and dirty soil of real life.

Multiplication happens in the brokenness.

I want transformation in my life.

You can’t get to transformation without change.

You can’t get to change without brokenness.

The degree to which you can embrace brokenness is the degree to which you will experience abundance.

The degree to which you can embrace brokenness is the degree to which you will experience intimacy.

The shortest distance between two hearts is sharing the brokenness.

Communion comes out of being real, vulnerable and transparent about our brokenness.

The last supper.  The break being broken and Jesus and the disciples being broken.

The wine is the result of the crushed grapes being passed around and shared.

The brokenness of humility, vulnerability and generosity is good brokenness.

The brokenness of regret, remorse and isolation and self harm is bad brokenness.

But good brokenness can be poured into bad brokenness and heal and redeem it.

Psalm 34.

The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them;
    he delivers them from all their troubles.
¹⁸ The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
    and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Matthew 5.

⁴ Blessed are those who mourn,
    for they will be comforted.

Matthew 11.

²⁸ “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

 2 Corinthians 12

Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. ⁸ Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. ⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. ¹⁰ That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.