Hello All,
Has anyone else started the "A Tale of Three Kings" yet? I got it the other day and I'm on my second read. It was an easy read and now I'm looking at things that caught my eye the first time through.
I definitely see myself in this book, and I find that brokenness is what is on my heart most. I want to be completely broken for Christ. I say that and kind of cringe as I think of the implications of that statement, but I still want to be completely broken for Him.
I would be interested in your thoughts on the book. For me I wonder what I'm supposed to do first to be broken. I mean after declaring I want to be broken. What is the next step? Has anyone ever gone through this process before or maybe you're there now? Does it just happen and your realize on the other side that you were being broken? Are there things that I should be looking for so I will know I'm in the process?
I know the book talks about how God used King Saul in David's life but I don't have anyone trying to kill me right now. I don't feel so much despair or pain right now that I don't want to go on. In fact, the lack there of may be why I'm wanting to be broken. Maybe I don't really understand what I'm asking for. I know that I really appreciated Julie Y. opening up and sharing her issues with pride and that is part of what has pulled me in this direction of brokenness. I don't want to be a King Saul for I want to have the Heart of God and be an man after His heart.
I would appreciate any thoughts you may wish to share. Thanks for listening (reading?) what I have on my mind. I look forward to hearing from you. Blessings.
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Hi Bob,
ReplyDeleteI did go through breaking. It started when Gary told me to ask God about my anger. I had stuffed the anger so deep that I didn't know it was there. When he called it up, it surfaced.
Asking God to be broken usually leads to events that reveal where the resistance is. I usually revisit pride and self-focus. That is usually holding me up when I try to make progress.
I think in part waiting is necessary, it sounds like you've asked to be broken. I believe, and from some of my own experience, have seen God bring to the surface what's not of Him in my life. Sometimes I didn't recognize these things in myself, didn't know they weren't godly nor that this is what I gave others.
ReplyDeleteUm, an illustration is, cockroaches. Here in BKK, when it rains the cockroaches come out. They go to higher, drier ground. You didn't know they were around, but you if you walk on the streets, look at the cement fences there are tons of them. It is disgusting, dirty... but not worth keeping. Whatever God is breaking off of us is like this.
Um, I suspect I'm still going or will be going through some breaking processes. So personally, it's included realization of bitterness and resentment towards others, and family. Realizing who my authority is and isn't.
Hey Bob, I thought of you yesterday while listening to a sermon. It was talking about when God spoke of immediately and suddenly in the Bible (say for example Pentecost, upper room). The preacher said that it wasn't immediate, that there was preparation for days, really we don't know how long. And then, when preparation was complete, when something progressed in them, then came the suddenly.
ReplyDeleteSo I want to encourage you, in whatever God is doing in you right now. To assume a time and place of preparation and progression... your immediately and suddenly is here.
I'll listen to it one more time. It went on saying that things like Jesus' ministry, Joseph's completion of his dream, Moses exodus and entering the promise land... were similar situations. So press on.
Well being broken isn't and won't be a one time event.
ReplyDeleteI was reading the book and I asked God to reveal places I had been broken, hurts I had suffered and he showed me a lot of past hurts that still affect me now. But out of that and realizing those past things I was able to begin moving forward.
You said, or implied you "hadn't been broken" and I highly doubt that is true. I'd encourage you to ask God to reveal places of hurt, mistrust, abuse, anything in your past that is still in you today that hasn't been dealt with and there some brokenness will being- the old foundation stripped away and a new foundation built on Christ.
For me another form of brokenness I've experienced is God's breaking heart for us. Like I'll see someone walking down the street and just lift a prayer up for them and then He will totally hit me with a wave of his love and compassion and it just breaks my heart that there are people who don't know or don't believe they have a purpose and that God has good things for them... It's been awesome to just love on strangers through prayer and be broken for the people who are on his mind.