The Lord blessed us with a beautiful
Ash Wednesday gathering last night. There was a great time sharing and
celebration. One of the teens shared that she is going to give up meat for Lent.
One of my daughters called and shared that she is going to live more of a very
contemplative life and simple life this season. I desire to follow Christ and
serve Him with joy and obedience.
Psalm 51 is one of the traditional
readings for Ash Wednesday. This is a Psalm of David, written with a broken
heart. In brokenness David wrote this Psalm of repentance and restoration. David
spoke of his bones being broken in judgment and his heart being broken in
repentance. He understood that God is interested in hearts and, unlike others,
He does not want one that is perfect. He wants the heart that is broken. We see
this theme throughout the Bible of God receiving glory not from things that are
whole but from things that are broken.
Some things can not give God glory
until they are broken. The Glory of a broken leg: We read about Jacob and God
wrestling in Genesis 33. Jacob ended up with a broken leg, but he also ended up
with a blessing. The Glory of Broken Bread: we read in Matthew 14:19 that Jesus
took the loaves, blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples
for distribution. The Bread was broken for multiplication. Though the bread was
broken and distributed, the supply was not thereby diminished. The Glory of
Broken Box: In Mark 14:3, as Jesus sat in Simon the Leper’s house a woman came
with an alabaster box of spikenard ointment. She broke the box, pouring the
ointment on Jesus’ head, and then she proceeded to wash his feet with her tears
and wipe them with her hair. The Glory of the Broken Body of Christ: In Matthew
26:26, Jesus took bread and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the
disciples and said, “Take ye and eat, for this is my body which is broken for
you." It represented the broken body of our Lord. John 21:19: “Thus spake he,
signifying by what death he should glorify God.”
Indeed, in brokenness there is greater wholeness
awaiting than we can ask or imagine.
In Christ,
Brown
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