2024 has been a rough season. Looking at the world, this statement most likely burns deep in many other lives. Broken hearts, broken spirits and broken dreams rain on the lives of many of God’s children. Past couple of weeks, I’ve found myself asking God to stop all the breaking. His response has not been to instantaneously stop the breaking of my heart; but rather, to yield His wisdom through one additional break. God broke my way of thinking. Cutting deep to my core, God sent me a newsflash announcing, “Satan breaks; God reassembles”. Though a struggle, I pulled this apart in hope of putting my life back together. Praise God, His wisdom was revealed and turned into the adhesive bond my heart and soul are seeking.
It is Satan, not God, who shreds our lives, our families and our dreams. Satan’s goal is to break all that is good, and of God, into pieces. The devil desires our fragmented scraps to forever remain in ruin. Breaking is an end goal for Satan. God never breaks. He allows only disassemblement. There is magnanimous difference between break and disassemble. Understanding this polar-opposite reality is the glue that seals a Christian life in faith and hope.
A break destroys. Disassemble takes something apart and allows the splinters to be reconfigured into a better, stronger and even more beautiful entity. Satan breaks to tear down, demolish and end. God allows disassembly so the dismantled pieces can be re-birthed into wisdom and a new beginning. Blame Satan for the broken pieces of our lives. Praise God that He is waiting to guide us toward reassembling our lives into better accord, so we might love mightier and rejoice gratefully in the blessing of His will and way re-cementing our lives.
Once we collapse in broken pieces, what are we to do? Two choices are ours to make. Either, we can solely see the ruin, blame others for the destruction and remain surrounded in shattered hopes and dreams; or we can “soul”y choose to see with God’s insight. We can let go of blame and anger and cling to allowing God’s lead and guidance help reassemble our lives into a better reflection of the image of Christ. Herein, lies God’s miracle of broken pieces being turned into new and greater creations.
We can choose between the blame game or the name game. The blame game is to fault God, or His children, for the wrong that occurred and resulted in the broken pieces of our lives. The name game is to bring our splintered fragments to God; place them in His hands and beg Him to reassemble, in the name of Jesus Christ, our brokenness, so we better reflect God’s will, way, forgiveness and redemption.
Don’t know about you, but my life is drowning right now in the sea of broken pieces. God handed me His life saver 2,024 years ago on Mt, Calvary. It’s more than time for me to, once and for all, sever Satan’s brokenness and tether my life to God’s reassembly line. My hope and prayer are all my family and extended sisters and brothers in Christ join me in this restoration of the broken pieces of our lives.
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 