We are not easily broken

Jeremiah 19:10-11

"Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching, and say to them, 'This is what the LORD Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter's jar is smashed and cannot be repaired."

Ben and Jeff's sermon this Sunday highlighted a smashed vessel, our brokenness, Like Jeremiah says when we do not turn from our sin God will get our attention in other ways because he loves us that much. Interestingly during the illustration on Sunday the first time that Jeff through down the pot to smash it, it was not broken. The hard, dried and baked clay vessel resisted the brokenness only to be picked up again and smashed into hundreds of pieces. Wondering if any one else sees a message in that? ....
Someone said to me today, "We are not easily broken." This is very true, we resist it, who wants to be smashed into hundreds of pieces. Yet who doesn't want to be a legitimate child of God?
Hebrews 12:6

"The Lord disciplines those he loves,
and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son."

If we are true children of God we are loved and thus also disciplined if we have unconfessed sin. Brokenness isn't really our choice in the end anyway, though we resist, he still has the power to go beyond us and break us, as in the case of the fateful pots this past Sunday. Our choice is not if we will be broken but how will we respond to brokenness.
Brokenness is painful, yet it is the way to freedom.

Emotional

So it's been a few months since I blogged and it's been on my mind to blog for a while but I really wasn't knowing what to write. Well today I have something.
Emotional - It has been happening in prayer lately or when I start to talk about God with someone, I start to feel emotional, even at just hearing his name. It is almost like I can feel the Spirit in the room and then like my senses converge and don't know what to do so I feel the urge to cry or like this morning I just flat out bawl my eyes out. I knew that was coming for a while because in a way I had been holding out on letting it all out, or was that letting it all in. I suppose it was both. So much has been going on in our church theses days, to put it mildly and I realize the task of faithfully serving and loving our church has never been more pressing, than at this time. Which means I need to be spending a lot more time flat out before God. and at times that just seems overwhelming.
There is so much more I could say about letting it all out and letting it all in but it's late and I'm going to bed.

I have no challenge today but to myself - Pray!

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