The Broken

Watching the news is heart wrenching now. I don’t know if it’s worse today than it was or if it’s just more access to things happening. When something happens though they say well this person is broken or that is broken. In this society we throw away the broken things. We don’t fix, repair, rehab, or reuse. We do the same with people.

I have often felt broken, unloved, unimportant, undesirable, and undeserving. The honest truth is I was and I still am. The beautiful part about being broken is still being useful. I am broken but I can still do things. I am broken but I can still fix things. I am broken but I can still be kind. I am broken but I can still Love.

The difference in this society and God is that he doesn’t throw away the broken. He sees the broken pieces and sees the priceless creation not the worthless being. He sees you for your heart and not for your failures. He knows your purpose in this life and the gifts he has given you.

God has created you for a purpose, that job is yours alone. If you aren’t fulfilling that calling then the job will not get done. But as with everything else if God has called you to do something he has qualified you to do it as well. Because you are broken in the eye of man has no bearing on your place in the eye of our God.

So how do we move forward? In Matthew 22:37-38 Jesus says “Love the Lord you God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind, this is the first and greatest commandment “. Let God into your heart, he can’t bless what you won’t let him touch. Find time daily to read from his word. Pray daily, earnestly, and the Bible says without ceasing. Lastly find time to worship the greatness that is God and the fact that he can take all of the broken pieces of each of us and form a masterpiece that can change the world.

Now if you are like me you’re wondering how on earth you could change the world. I think the answer to that is found in the very next verse when Jesus said “and the second is like it. Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” Get out there today and love someone until they ask why.

I love you.