Brokenness
To hear love songs about a broken heart will cause someone to have an ugly cry. We all have those ugly cries and it’s usually a good one too. To read love stories or see a movie about a brokenhearted love can cause one of the toughest guys to tear up. Seeing a beautiful vase sitting on your mantel over the fireplace for so many to gaze upon when entering your home, only to pick up the pieces from a fall. To go through a whole puzzle box looking for that one particular piece to complete a masterpiece. Various examples of brokenness which is defined as a condition in which something has been badly damaged and unable to continue or work correctly. Broken is defined as something that is fractured or nor longer working.
How you work through some of the pieces of life that appear to be broken or may even paralyze you? Do you find yourself looking for duct tape or something to patch it up to keep going? When is it a good time to phone a friend? A more in-depth question, do you have friends that you can call during a time of need? Are these trustworthy friends? Not everyone you feel is a friend have good intentions for your well-being. For your brokenness, there are moments when you make every attempt to pick up your own scattered pieces. It’s the trustworthy friends who will help pick up those pieces with you.
Luke 5; 17-20 “On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal. And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus, but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and left him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus. And when he saw their faith, he said “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
To look at the friends or companions with the person in this text, they took the time to make every effort to make sure this person had access to the Savior. They sacrificed their time, strength and energy to help someone else receive a blessing. These friends had the same agenda in mind. No one was above the other. The same unspoken goal. These friends did not appear to not have any kind of reciprocal request in mind. No ill-intentions.
When you find someone who’s on the same level you are and it’s to benefit you, truly a good thing. They will lift you and not tear you down. See some of the mess we get into, we try to place square pieces into round holes and then wonder why nothing goes as planned. It’s those friends to who value us will keep it real and do what they humanly can to ensure we have what’s needed. They will let us know that these square pieces don’t fit. They will not hold our brokenness against us. They will pray for us and help tear open a roof to see we will be in the midst of our Savior.
Be Kept!
A picture of a beautiful butterfly on broken rock.
