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.