Broken


Just recently I was talking to a friend and I revealed an awful truth - I am broken. The idea that I was broken had been manifesting itself in my life in the form of a sin struggle I thought I could not overcome. Have you been here too? Is there something in your life that seems too big or too oppressive to overcome? I thought I would never be whole in this area again. That this sin would get the best of me each time it mockingly knocked on the door of my heart.

You see, you and I are broken. We don't work the way we were intended to work, and we often fail miserably over and over again. The inherited battle against the flesh is a lifelong struggle that every Christian faces. The Apostle Paul says it this way:

"For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do." (Romans 7:18-19)

Our brokenness comes from our sin nature, which is ever present with us. It's not going away until Christ returns or the Lord calls us home. In our own efforts to fix the broken places that have been torn apart by sin, we will fail. We will face the same obstacles and come away with the same defeat if we are attempting to fix the problems by ourselves.

Oh friend, there is hope!

There is a way to fix our brokenness and make us complete, and that way is through our Completer! (Colossians 2:10)

We are no longer under the bondage of sin that once chained us to a life of death. "And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness." (Romans 8:10)

Through Christ's saving grace, our body (our fleshly desires and sinful tendencies) is dead (powerless) when we are operating through the Spirit. The Holy Spirit will guide us to make right choices so that we can endeavor to live righteously and to have victory over those broken places. The hard part is allowing Him to work. In the nitty gritty of daily life it is a struggle to make those right choices and say no. Our flesh tries to weigh us down, and we can sometimes be fooled into thinking we will never have victory over certain broken areas of our lives.

But what I have come to realize is that, yes, I may be faced with a broken area time after time again, but I don't have to give in to my brokenness. I don't have to listen to the lies that whisper I will never be an overcomer. I don't have to be afraid of the broken places because when I am faced with that sin yet again, I am faced with the realization that I am totally dependent on God. He is my only hope and my only help. He is my Completer, and if I allow Him to, He will take over that broken area and fill it with His fullness.

And how can I be broken if God's fullness is in me?


In your prayers today, ask God to help you overcome the lies of brokenness with His truth. Then ask Him to fill your broken areas with His fullness and allow Him to completely complete you. God bless!

"For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." (Philippians 3:20-21)


~ Tiffany ~

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