Brokenness

Read Psalm 51

Psalm 51:17
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart
you, God, will not despise.

The world values strength, wholeness and completeness but God values brokenness. This is just another reversed value of the kingdom.

What is brokenness? It is the sense of being vulnerable, helpless and of need. It goes together with a contrite heart. Contrite means being repentant, sorry and a sense of needing God.

Being broken requires humility and submission. It commands that the "I" (self) in us will bow to the "C" (Christ) in us.

Jesus says it is ‘not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.” (Matt 9:12).
Being broken is the recognition of us who need healing, that we are far from being whole. When we come to God with our condition, God takes us and gently heals us. The result is wholeness as God cures us from our waywardness, sin and pains.

Before a patient can be operated upon, she has to sign a consent form permitting the surgeon to perform the surgery. She has to submit herself to the doctor’s directives, making herself completely at the mercy of her surgeon’s wisdom. Part of her journey toward healing is to endure the pain before and after operation and trust the physician’s expertise to her recovery.

King David penned Psalm 51 after he committed adultery with Bathsheba. He came to God broken in spirit and contrite in heart and in God’s forgiveness, finds restoration and revival again.