The two words don t seem to go together. If anything, they seem to be exact opposites. We all know what it means to be broken to be shattered, to feel as if our entire world has fallen apart, or perhaps been blown apart. We all have times in our lives when we don t want to raise our heads off the pillow, and when we feel certain the tears will never stop flowing. Brokenness is often accompanied by emptiness a void that cannot be filled, a sorrow that cannot be comforted, a wound for which there is no balm.
Nothing feels blessed about being broken.
The most painful and difficult times of my life have been those times when I felt broken. I don t like pain, suffering, or feelings of brokenness any more than anybody else does. Certain circumstances in life hurt, at times so intensely that we think we will never heal. One of the things I have discovered through being broken, however, is that after brokenness we can experience God s greatest blessings. After brokenness our lives can be the most fruitful and have the most purpose.