The bows of the warriors are broken, but those who stumbled are armed with strength.
1 Samuel 2:4
There is an oxymoron throughout the Bible. It says that brokenness is strength.
How can this be?
How can brokenness be strength?
In order to use men and women to their fullest extent, God has to break His servants so that they might have a new kind of strength that is not human in origin. It is strength in spirit that is born only through brokenness.
- Paul was broken on the
- Peter was broken after Jesus was taken prisoner.
- David was broken after his sin with Bathsheba.
The list could go on of those the Lord had to break in different ways before they could be used in the Kingdom.
When we are broken, we see the frailty of human strength and come to grips with the reality that we can do nothing in our own strength. Then, new strength emerges that God uses mightily.
Do not fear brokenness, for it may be the missing ingredient to a life that emerges with a new kind of strength and experience not known before—God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.
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