DAILY "MANNA" DEVOTION: Being Easily Broken
- Lynn Palmer
- Mar 13, 2017
- 4 min read
Reading Time: 4 Mins. 4 Secs.
Scripture Readings: 2 Samuel 11-12:1-25; 2 Chronicles 7:14.
Read Last Devotional: Called Yet fLaWeD.
Day 16
How easy is it for your heart to be broken?
Years ago, I remember this movie that came out that was called Not Easily Broken. It was a great movie about how we often allow the things of this life and the people in it to break us and learning to become stronger in midst of it.
I know that many after watching the movie felt empowered to stand their ground and fight the forces of evil against them. When we see or listen to things like this it gives us hope and it causes us to feel that we could get through this thing called life okay. Things will be fine.
But...
What happens when we have mastered getting through life this way and we do become "not easily broken" ALL THE TIME?
What tends to happen to a lot of us is that we become hardened. Our hearts, that is. We are not easily broken, but not broken at all.
It is harder for us to see our faults, our errors, and the mistakes we make that causes others to hurt from. We become so busy keeping others outside in order to not get hurt, we end up hurting others and rarely see it because we're not broken at all.
Well, I want to talk about changing this. Okay, not necessarily changing, but finding a balance rather. How to become not so easily broken by the cares of this world, but broken in another way.
Read Daily "Manna" Devotion: Blessings in Obedience.
Have you ever had your heart broken before? Whether through an intimate opposite sex relationship or any relationship or circumstance, for that matter, many understand the feeling of having a heart break before.
Think about it for a minute here.
Now I want you to soak on this question: What were your first thoughts once you experienced your heart being shattered to pieces?
Can you remember the emptiness you felt? I'm sure you can. Unless you have somehow suppressed those feelings and can't remember them.
It is sad to say, even though it made you feel like the worst thing has happened to you, but this feeling can actually work for your benefit. I promise you it can!
I used to often wonder when I read the scripture about God, himself, calling David a man after His own heart. I thought that this meant that God loved him better than any other and I would envy the idea of this.
But little did I know, this scripture didn't mean that at all. In fact, all throughout the stories of David you can clearly see...David was just like you and me, a sinner in midst of being a lover of God.
What God was pointing out was that David was a person who literally followed after God's heart as he sought the heart of God with mostly everything he did, the good, the bad, and the ugly. David wasn't afraid to be humble and admit the hardest of his mistakes!...Yes, and some of them were really ugly!
But how was David able to achieve such humility when he'd done some pretty awful things in his life?
He understood what it meant to be broken! Good-hearted people often break.
You know why?
Because we realize we need help and that we cannot otherwise do this thing called life, alone.
Read Daily "Manna" Devotion: The Best Version of You.
Life gets hard. If no one ever told you, I will. But it's about how we begin to take life in and respond toward it that matters. When we take the good with the bad and the ugliest, we can't allow it to get the best of us and wear us down.
But what's important is that we allow God to break us. Break us out of our pride when we want to feel right in our wrongs, up when we're down, the pride that says we're okay when we're not.
Let God break us and life humble us. God is able to work through us in our humility that says, "Jesus please take the wheel of my life".
Life can knock us down, but what we need to make a conscious effort toward daily is becoming easily broken by God to help us handle it.
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
2 Chronicles 7:14
Is your heart easily broken on today?
Prayer: Lord, thank you for dealing with the intents of my heart on today. I ask that you would help me to humble myself even when it's the hardest to do. I ask for your strength in all of my weak areas and that you would bring out the best in me. I thank you in Jesus' name. Amen!
Quiet time meditation: Wait for the Lord to minister to you personally on what He may want to say to you. Be sure to pay attention to any areas that may pop up in your spirit (even silly things such as: how quick you may be to get angry with things or a friend or family member who has been bugging you with their problems.) This process could take anywhere from 10-30 minutes or longer. But, try not to rush this because you could be missing out on a great breakthrough. Within this quiet time, the Lord wants to restore you in any broken areas and he wants to replenish your spirit for what has been used up.
Understanding what He means: This is a time to jot down some of those things the Lord has ministered to you while in meditation. Sometimes, the Lord will wait to speak to you throughout your day. Pay attention and jot these things down so that you won’t forget. You may even come up with more scriptures that may come to mind.
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May the Lord bless your day abundantly!
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