Broken Things
Our women's group at church just finished Angela Thomas-Pharr's study, Stronger. The theme was that God is stronger than everything we will encounter. The final week's session was titled, "God is Stronger Than Every Broken Thing in Me." Angela made the point on page 144 that, "God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces." She quoted Proverbs 23:26, "My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways."
Thomas-Pharr first goes over what love shouldn't look like in broken relationships (i.e. allowing yourself to be manipulated, abused, or pressured) and then noted, "Seeing a broken friendship through the eyes of love means extending the same grace Christ has extended to you, the same mercy, the same forgiveness, and the same compassion. It means laying down our desire to condemn and to demand satisfaction, just as He laid down those things," (page 151).
She stated that, "Our world revolves around right and fair and correct...what we're entitled to. What's owed to us," (page 150) rather than Jesus' kind of love that is God-centered, humble, servant oriented, and forgiving. We must get anchored back into the ways of the Lord or our society will drift into uncharted waters that will bring even more turbulence and drown out the cries for help from lost souls wondering how we became so broken. I would suggest, we are a broken world because we have hardened our hearts with self-serving attitudes and no longer observe the ways of God with our scale-covered eyes.
Thomas-Pharr first goes over what love shouldn't look like in broken relationships (i.e. allowing yourself to be manipulated, abused, or pressured) and then noted, "Seeing a broken friendship through the eyes of love means extending the same grace Christ has extended to you, the same mercy, the same forgiveness, and the same compassion. It means laying down our desire to condemn and to demand satisfaction, just as He laid down those things," (page 151).
She stated that, "Our world revolves around right and fair and correct...what we're entitled to. What's owed to us," (page 150) rather than Jesus' kind of love that is God-centered, humble, servant oriented, and forgiving. We must get anchored back into the ways of the Lord or our society will drift into uncharted waters that will bring even more turbulence and drown out the cries for help from lost souls wondering how we became so broken. I would suggest, we are a broken world because we have hardened our hearts with self-serving attitudes and no longer observe the ways of God with our scale-covered eyes.
John 13:35
By this all people will know that your are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
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