The Blessing of Brokenness
Our brokenness is God’s way of shaping and molding us into something beautiful. He fixes broken things. He is the ultimate potter.
Welcome to the 55th post of The Aim and Soar Life, a weekly Christian personal growth and lifestyle newsletter that provides actionable, relatable, and biblically rooted content to help you live abundantly and GROW YOU. GOD’S WAY.
Greetings!
Please stand with me in prayer for the families that were affected by devastating tornadoes in Mississippi and Alabama. May God cover and comfort each family as they cope with emotional and physical losses. We, the people of God, are called to pray and assist however the Lord leads us. Remember the families in your prayers this week. Our prayers do make a difference because they land on the ears of our Father in heaven, who is the only one who can heal broken hearts. Thank you.
“I feel so broken!” Those were the words my young mentee said to me this past week. At the tender age of sixteen, she experienced her first relationship letdown. Whether you approve of a 16-year-old girl dating or not, her pain is real. With all the mental health issues our teens face today, I make sure to always validate their feelings. Many teens and young adults resort to suicide because they feel that their pain is too great and they have nowhere to turn.
I reminded my mentee that no matter what mistakes she’d made, God still loves her. I told her that she was still beautiful and that she still belonged to God. I assured her that Jesus could heal her brokenness.
I am very familiar with the feeling of brokenness, and I know that God heals.
Brokenness doesn’t have an age limit. It can occur in our lives as early as age four or five, due to abuse and neglect, or later in life due to divorce, death, or health issues. Whatever the reason for our brokenness, God has the remedy.
I will be the first to warn you that in most cases, brokenness does not just go away instantaneously. As a result of being sexually abused as a child, I struggled with self-confidence and worthiness for most of my young adult life. Even into my late forties, I still carried the “residue” of brokenness caused by the abuse I experienced as a child.
Sometimes it takes years to feel completely healed from the pain we experience in our lives, but God does heal. He repairs. He restores.
He heals the brokenhearted
And binds up their wounds.Psalm 147:3, NKJV
While we are in the healing process, God makes Himself known to us in more intimate ways. He teaches us about ourselves. He shows us what we need to correct in our lives if our pain has been caused by our sins.
And if our pain has been caused by circumstances related to living in a fallen world, He comforts us. Not only does God comfort us, but He also gives us the strength to endure whatever we may be facing.
He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
Isaiah 40:29, NKJV
As horrible as my experience of being sexually abused as a child was, I would live through it again—along with all the hurt and self-doubt it caused in me as I grew into womanhood.
Why? Simply because I know for a fact that as a therapist and mentor, I have helped many young women who have experienced sexual abuse to build their self-esteem and heal from their traumas through the power of God. I have been able to comfort them and show them that God does heal. They learned that they are worthy because God says so. My life has been a testament to what God can do. That is a blessing, not just for me, but for the many young women who have told me how much my story meant to them.
Brokenness is beauty in God’s hands!
3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, working away at the wheel. 4 But the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter’s hand, so he made it into another jar, as it seemed right for him to do.
Jeremiah 18:3-4, HCSB
Our brokenness is God’s way of shaping and molding us into something beautiful. He fixes broken things. He is the ultimate potter.
Peace and Love to You!
Until Next Time,
GROW YOU. GOD’S WAY.
Sherrhonda😍
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