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Asking To Be Broken

Asking to be broken is actually an ironic proposal. It’s sort of like an elephant asking to be large and gray. Look for a moment at your relationships, your thoughts, your decisions, your ability to meet all your own needs, and you’ll realize you’re already broken. When we pray the “break me” prayer, what we’re really praying is for the Holy Spirit to break us of our pride and help us to realize how broken we already are.

Most of us Christians don’t have too hard of a time with the idea of a savior. We’ve sinned and fallen short. We need Christ to come and give us full life here and an eternal life in Heaven. However, we tend to struggle with making Jesus our Lord. What is a Lord? Someone who has full rule. We tend to want the peace of salvation without the commitment of servitude. Yet, to fully accept Jesus’ life-saving, sacrificial gift, we have to fully give our lives back to Him. We can’t pick savior and skip Lord. We’re entirely lost without both.

The brokenness that many of us need is the realization that we’re horrible at being our own masters. It’s not much different from the way a new horse needs to be broken of its own desires. As we look for ways God is breaking down our pride and self-rule today, let’s remember He was first broken for us. The reason He is a such a trustworthy Lord is because He is our savior. We can trust Him to break us because He made us, and He knows how to remake us.

Pray: Holy Spirit, show me how I’m trying to rule my own life. Show me how broken I really am. I want to see how deeply I need Jesus as both my savior and my Lord. Then, will You give me the strength to turn my life completely over to You? Amen.