AN ATTITUDE OF BROKENNESS

For Reading and meditation : John 12: 1-8,John 6:5-13

Jesus was at Bethany for a dinner party, where Lazarus lived. His sister Martha served while Lazarus was among the guests. All of a sudden something happened. The entire house was filled with the fragrance of an expensive perfume. Everybody was curious to know what has happened. Finally they discovered the source of the fragrance. The cause of the fragrance in the entire house was Mary’s willingness to break the jar at the feet of Jesus. It was broken for a purpose. She broke the jar just to minister to Jesus but it also blessed the people around her.

Let’s see another incident here. Once Jesus and His disciples were ministering to the crowd. When they got late and Jesus wanted to feed the crowd. He put a challenge before the disciple but they failed to understand His heart. But everything changed immediately when a small boy was willing to hand his lunch box over to the disciples. It was just five loaves of bread and two small fishes. What difference will it make in that large crowd? But it did make a difference when it was broken in the hand of the master. The broken pieces multiplied and became food for all the hungry people. The little boy was willing to let go of what he had and allowed it to be broken.

What does God expect from us today? Is there any thing we can bring to God and allow Him to use it for His glory? May be our own heart. The Bible says “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, oh God you will not despise”. (Psalms 51:17 NIV)

When we live with an attitude of brokenness it brings pleasure to God. Our heavenly father uses that to bring healing to many others too.

“We leak the love of Jesus through our brokenness”

Let us have an attitude of brokenness in our daily walk with God.

Prayer: God help me to have a broken and contrite spirit, so that I can show the love of Jesus when I am weak. Let your strength be revealed in my weakness. In Jesus name. Amen.