Garden of your heart

Heart issue - Brokenness!

What does it mean to be a broken Christian?  Brokenness according to Nancy Leigh DeMoss in her book titled "Brokenness, The Heart God Revives" is:  

1.  The shattering of my self will - the absolute surrender of my will to God. 

 2.  The stripping of self-reliance and independance from God  

3.  Softening of the soil of my heart (breaking up any clods of resistance). 

As I have read through this book twice this summer, answered the study questions with it, I realize that this is a continual process.  We are not broken once and for all!  Each day I need to choose to live a life of brokenness!  I must choose Christ over self!  I must choose Christ over my way!  I must choose Christ over my will!  Now, since I have been going through this book and also doing a Bible Study on the book of Daniel, I have seen my selfish nature in so many moments throughout the day.   There are moments of victory (praise God for any of those) and moments of defeat.  I desire to be that broken child of God who readily does His will at all times, in all ways, at His beckoning....then I see that I fall to my comfort, my way, my will!  I confess.....I pick up once again due to God's grace mercy and grace and once again choose Christ.....only to find that ugly self rise again!  Maybe that is where Paul talks in Romans 7 "I do what I don't want to do and don't do what I want to do." 

Although we will not be perfect this side of heaven, we are in the perfection process!  Not for the sake of being perfect, but for the joy of being like Christ!  So, once again I say, I choose to be broken!  I humble myself before God!  I choose Him, not self!  I choose to take up my cross daily and follow Him.  Each moment of every day!  When I don't, I choose to not be stubborn about it, but to repent!  I choose to humble myself before the Lord!  I choose Him above all else! 

That's the abundant life!  :)

It is so hard, isn't it?

11:13, Wednesday, August 20, 2008 .. Posted by MissBee

Each day, each moment we must decide whether we will give in to the current situation and be tossed to and fro by our wants and emotions, or will we pick up our cross, deny ourselves and follow Christ.

Thank you for the great reminder (and the book recommendation!)

Edited by MissBee on Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 01:13