Blesssedness of Brokenness

Psalm 51:16-17  For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.  17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise.

David was a man after God’s own heart, but he had wandered far from God.  Success, pride, and presumption had made him self-sufficient opening his soul to places of sin he thought he could never go.  This left David dry and in a spiritual wilderness. He found himself in the lowest and darkest time of his life.  David desperately needed restoration and revival but from where would it come? 

 

David learned that the journey to revival always begins on a street called brokenness.  Desperation always precedes revival.  Until man is brought low he will never cry out to God in brokenness and without brokenness there can be no revival.  When a heart is broken before the Lord nothing else matters but the Lord.  All of our lofty dreams and worldly desires have been shattered.  All of our lovers of whom we have adulterated ourselves and have consumed our minds are exposed as nothing more than false gods and they are crushed under the weight of our brokenness.  Every mask that we have carefully painted on while pretending to be someone or something that we are not is painfully stripped away. 

Yes, in our brokenness we are laid bare, naked before God in a humiliating, helpless state with no else one else to turn to but our Redeemer, the only true lover of our souls.  With everything stripped away nothing else matters but God.  We once again begin to be consumed with Him and His righteousness during the night and when we first awake.  Brokenness brings restoration to the One who truly loves us, the One who gave Himself for us. 

And when did the brokenness begin?  It began at the house of judgment where God’s truth reveals us for whom and what we are and have become.  This righteous judgment drives us to desperation, and desperation to revival.   Let us therefore praise God for His truth, His judgment, and His grace of brokenness.