Being broken

I was reading a blog yesterday by Grieg Groeschel the pastor of Life Church in Oklahoma. He said if you are going to lead a church expect to be broken. What? Expect to be broken, I didn’t sign up to be broken, I want to be blessed! The truth is that God wants you in a place of total dependence and it takes brokenness to get us there.
Over the last two weeks I have experienced personal brokenness in a way I have never experienced. I am still reeling from the revelation of God regarding my character. I am so much more into sin management than repentance. God is into repentance. I am learning that God will break me in order to use me. I hate this. Hebrews 12:11 says …

“No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.”

I am in a season of waiting for the harvest of righteousness. I think about Jesus being broken for my sins and I begin to understand why He breaks us. If this concept sounds weird then just hang on, it will make more sense as you follow Jesus. I think we are a fellowship of the broken!