The Blessing of Brokenness

Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. John 12:24


In the above verse, Jesus tells us that only by falling and breaking can a single grain produce a rich crop. If it remains isolated and protected, it will never produce anything.

That’s how the Lord works to mature His children. He breaks us in order to bring spiritual growth and supernatural ministry into our lives. And the process is always the same:

1. He targets the areas in which we are not submissive to Him.

2. He arranges the circumstances and selects the tools with which to break self-sufficiency.

3. He controls the pressure and timing of those circumstances to bring us back into His will.

If we refuse to be re-formed through this brokenness and instead cling to whatever God wants us to release, then He will put us on the shelf. Just like the single, unbroken grain of wheat, we will become fruitless and alone. Yet we resist brokenness at every turn. We want to hang on to the things we think bring joy. We want to persist in relationships that are stunting our spiritual growth. We want to take the path of least resistance and hope that God will bless our laziness. This is not the road to maturity that our Father has prepared for us.

Brokenness hurts. The Word, however, proclaims that it hurts far more not to be broken. Don’t be distracted by short-term happiness. Look where your Father is leading you and let Him do whatever it takes to get you there.

Thank You, Father, that You love me enough to form me and stretch me into the person that You desire me to be. Help me to be pliable and broken in Your hands. Keep me on the path that You have set me on, and teach me that laziness and the "path of least resistance" is not Your will for my life. Take my life, Lord; I surrender it to You. I love You and I praise You! In Jesus' Name~Amen