Dare To AskSample

Break me to Make me 

The woman with the alabaster jar. Probably one of the most well known stories in the New Testament. 

But why? 

Was it just that she was accepted by Yeshua when everyone else rejected her? Or was is that she had this tenacity to reach Him despite all the obstacles in her way? Was it that she washed His feet with her tears? 

I believe it is because she had to give Him something. She had nothing to give except her abandoned self, her tears and her perfume. This was pure worship, an act of being completely undone before God, with no regard for what it looked like, or who was watching. This is a kind of worship that we don’t often enter into in life, because we aren’t often in a place that desperate.

The alabaster jar in this story is what grabs my attention the most, I think it represents the worshipper who is so desperate for God, that they’re willing to be broken before Him.

We are not broken because God is cruel and likes to smash things, we’re broken because we have done a shoddy job of building walls that have no foundation, and creating a world that’s built on sand. He needs to break us so that he can recreate us into the design he always intended for us to be. 

He doesn’t leave us in pieces, That’s not who God is. He is a creator, a God of order, a God of restoration, and a God who makes all things new. He is the God of new seasons, of compassion and love. 

Really the best thing we can do is ask God to break us, so he can make us. 

It’s a dangerous prayer to pray, because He’ll do it! Being broken isn’t easy, but it’s truly the most beautiful thing He can do to us, What comes out of us when we are broken and poured out at His feet, is a treasured fragrance that pleases Him. He will see into us, like He saw into her, and He will remember us. 

That is true worship. 

Do you dare to ask to be broken?