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One of the most important lessons in life that we can learn from the Bible is the value of brokenness. It is one of the most centralized issues that we need to understand and we are doing ourselves a big disservice if we are not teaching it. Not that we should walk around feeling defeated with our heads hanging low, but to understand that the same way Christ was broken, and the bread is broken, we are torn away from our old way of thinking, old habits, and old mindset, rejoining him as a new creature. (2 Corinthians 5:17)

In the Kingdom of God, the only way to be strong is to allow yourself to become weak, and the only way to be whole is to allow yourself to be broken, allowing God to rebuild your life. This chapter talks about the birth of true strength and how it is created in a perfect weakness. How that weakness comes over everyone as life steamrolls you, steamrolls me, steamrolls over everyone.  (Ecclesiastes 2: 14-15) The benefit of this chapter is to teach you to allow that process to happen instead of avoiding it until it pops under the pressure of life, as everything crushes you under the giant steamroller of consequence.  God does not allow us to go through this process because he is angry with us, but that he wants us to be able to grow and not be stagnant in life. If you’re not being challenged you will simply regress and begin to wither away. This is very valuable to understand because it gives you the unique perspective and ability to see through things and avoid letting them happen all on their own. Sometimes we feel like we’re further along than we really are and God uses crazy circumstances to help us see the junk stuck inside the cracks of our heart. He helps us to see that we need a deep cleaning and the only way to get some of those things that are under the surface is to go through a huge amount of pressure. The hard way is the best way to learn, as they say. But I submit to you that such things can be avoided if you are willing to allow yourself to be broken first.

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“Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time.” (1Peter 5:6)

For being broken and receiving Him with all meekness is the key to true strength, strength that goes beyond ourselves.

The nature of the formula puts the proud in confusion, as they scramble for relief and toil for knowledge, strain for abundance and reach for strength, enslaving themselves to circumstance in the weakness of disbelief.

But we come boldly to the throne knowing he will never force his love. Are we willing to believe the life we’ve all been dreaming of?

You’ve got to let it all go and allow yourself to slip away. Detaching from what this world tries to shove in your face. Let the tranquility of humility wash it all away. Because power reciprocates in softness, a state which will never see dismay.

“The rebuke of the wise is better than the song of fools” (Ecclesiastes 7:5) as true strength is hidden underneath the golden rule. Anyone can act tough enough to be a fool, but a man of strength has the power to keep his cool.

Who is willing to see beyond the veil placed around our minds? Away from a world pushing the pride on her joyride of decline?

Because anyone who thinks they know anything at all will struggle with all they have.   And if you think you must do something to gain it, then you’ve lost it already.

“For whosoever has to him shall more be given. But whosoever has not, from him shall be taken even what he seems to have.” (Luke 8:18)

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