We are not magnets.
Yet, how often do we live like that? Drawing, collecting, letting anything & everything around us stick to us?
Worse yet, is when “religion” (No, not sincere Jesus following, but man-dictated religion) is used to justify man’s acceptance of worldliness, excessiveness, accumulation, or materialism…
Even boasting in arrogance, calling it, “blessed”?
Doesn’t Scripture call us, “broken vessels”, emptied, poured-out souls…surrendering everything for HIS goodness & righteousness?
Are we ever even mandated to hoard, collect, or keep anything?
Jesus had nowhere to lay His head.
Doesn’t the Bible say we must die to ourselves daily? If we have two tunics, aren’t we mandated to give the other away?
Isn’t His command…
Take up our cross (which is not a tool of comfort, but suffering) & follow His footsteps daily?
And if He was persecuted, betrayed, rejected, doesn’t he say, even guarantee…we will be too?
And don’t broken vessels have cracks? Aren’t broken vessels well used, tattered, not pretty when actually used to serve in their intended purpose?
Don’t broken vessels have dings, holes, likely despised, & seem to the world, waisted or worth nothing?
Still, doesn’t His Living Water pour best through that which is broken?
Doesn’t water poured, flow freest through that which has cracks? Aren’t we asked to be conduits, servants, selfless, & surrendered?
So, why is there so much shame, blame, or fear around brokenness?
When we see His perfect plan, the beauty in the brokenness, isn’t it easier to “give ourselves away”, even boasting at our weakness & imperfections…
Living a life CHOOSING emptiness…TRUSTING him & withholding nothing?
Just a few questions filtered through my head this morning as I worship…to the following song this morning…
Will you stop, sit at His feet, and let the Lord soak away all earthly things that have been clinging to you lately.
Watch, “Withholding Nothing Medley” here by William McDowell
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Jen, this post arrested me and I sat here nodding in agreement with the wonderful metaphor of a magnet you used to capture the theme of this post. I tweeted it! Thank you!