Brokenness is a Beautiful Thing

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Brokenness is a beautiful thing.

Yet it's often in our brokenness that we tend to run, and run far. We see ourselves to be beyond repair, too broken. We see all our hurts, our scars, our failures, our tears. Our heart cries out for something more, yet we turn to everything and everyone but the Healer of hurts to satisfy us, to cover up the pain.

But that is often where Jesus meets us. Oh how thankful I am that He meets us in our brokenness! He doesn't use the strong and mighty, the powerful and able-bodied, to do His work. He finds the imperfect, the prodigals, the brokenhearted--and He forms something beautiful.

That's just who God is. He makes beautiful things out of dust. He breathes his Spirit of perfection into sin-filled hearts. He sees the holy blood of His Son in place of all our imperfections.

And so we lift up our brokenness to Him. It's in this place of hurts and tears that He whispers to us His promises, reminding us of His constant presence. It's in this place of weakness that we breathe in the strength of God, in our place of defeat that we discover His victory.

It's in this place of brokenness that we come face to face with the unending love of God, the love that wraps us in His beautiful grace, the love that leaves the ninety-nine in order to bring just the one wanderer home.

People may fail us, things may fail, we may fail. But this love will never fail us. This love is strong enough to bring the dead back to life. To lift up humble, beaten down hearts to a place of security and healing.

To show Himself through our broken lives, and bring our brokenness to a place of beauty.

Brokenness is a beautiful thing.

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Psalm 147:3