By Nkop Mmekeme Asuquo
"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." Psalm 51:17 (KJV)
Chemists have been able to prove that the smaller the surface area of a solute particle, the faster the rate of reaction; and the larger the surface area, the slower the rate of reaction. Likewise, God responds faster to a heart that is broken before him in fear and reverence.
This entails becoming nothing before God by surrendering your totality to him, and until you become nothing before God, you are useless to him. Having a broken spirit before God simply means laying down every pride, throne, crown and all we possess, and reverencing God above all else in our lives.
He is not interested in how much sacrifice we can make for him in form of our gifts; be it money, time, strength and so on. All he requires from us when we come before him is the sacrifice of a broken spirit, through which he can bring to pass his perfect plans for creating us. The fulfillment of God’s creation plan is only possible in an atmosphere of brokenness. God is only concerned with the condition of your heart and not with your facial expression or physical gesticulations. The more broken a person is before God, the more attracted he is and the easier he penetrates to work out his good pleasure in such a vessel.
God chooses to show forth his glory in the most unexpected of situations; when the situation defies human solutions, and this is only wrought through vessels that are slain in the place of brokenness. We have seen vessels such as Moses, demonstrated in the crossing of the Red Sea ; Esther, demonstrated in a personality transformation from an orphan to a queen which led to the eventual vindication of the Jews; and so many more examples as recorded in the bible and as we see in many of our patriarchs of faith today.
Today ,there is a clarion call to all Christians to return to the place of brokenness, that God may be able to wrought through us, great and mighty things all to his own good pleasure, and to the end that he may bring us into the place of glory where he had prepared for us (the church) before time.
Prayer: Dear Lord, help me to always remain in the place of brokenness, that your purposes for my life may continually be fulfilled, in Jesus name. Amen.
For Further study: Psalm 34:18, Esther 4:1-17
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