My brokenness

”Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Matthew 11:28-30 NIV

Yesterday I read somewhere an egg needs to be cracked to be used.

So many things can come from cracking an egg. In its most natural form when not being used to be consumed a chick cracks an egg from the inside and is born to live to be a chicken. From a simple egg to new life. A new creation has been formed. The egg broke, and a transformation occurred.
The egg needed to crack so this fresh new life can come forth if not it will still be an egg.

For consumption so many things can happen when you crack an egg. You can make an omelette, fried egg, pancakes, used for baked goods and the possibilities of the outcomes are endless. It becomes a new form and also with a purpose. To nourish or satisfy a craving. The egg cracked and a transformation endured, and edible one but a transformation nonetheless. The egg cracked becomes something new so we can consume.

We all go through things. We all experienced moments where we feel we are about to crack. We feel a sense of isolation and brokenness. It is in those moments, in the waiting, in the battling the despair set before you, in the process that we need to lean in to faith and hope and trust our Lord. We need to understand that what we are experiencing is a part of a greater transformation that we will experience. A new form will take place with our circumstances. We need to be renewed. It all starts from that little crack that opens us up to the restorations and endless possibilities that the lord has in store for our greater good. Go make us new to make us better to restore and redeem us.

The Lord tells us to give him our burdens so he can lighten the load. He doesn’t want us to to crack or fall apart. He wants us to grow and become better from our circumstances. We all experience brokenness at its various levels.

To be broken is to come to God with nothing in our hands, knowing all we have to offer Him is our sin, and asking only for His mercy. The brokenness the Bible describes is not our problem, it is what we need.
“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God,
You will not despise.” (Psalm 51:17)


Brokenness – no one makes it through life avoiding it. There are several forms of it.

I’ve broken pencils, Christmas ornaments, promises for I am bit perfect and my bones.

I’ve had broken friendships, broken dreams, a broken heart time and time again.

I’ve felt fevers break after battling illnesses.

You see? There’s a whole lot of ways to be broken, and from our souls to our fingertips, brokenness is woven throughout all our human experience.

We experience various levels of brokenness in our spiritual walks. The Bible is filled with great men and women whom have experienced a variety of brokenness

The Bible gives illustrates different types of brokenness which vividly stands out and gives us insight and we too see a transformation in those experiencing them.

1- inward brokenness. A brokenness caused because of our sins the transformation from this kind is humility, surrendering and repentance. These personal forms of brokenness makes it difficult to look at the person staring back at you in the reflection. Yet this personal brokenness God still gives us an opportunity to restoration.

Examples: David after his affair with Bathsheba in Psalm 52, or Peter after denying Christ in Mark 14:66-72). These eggs cracked and where restored, redeemed after.

2-a broken heart from betrayal. hurt people hurt people, have you ever heard that saying? We have all hurt others whether we intended to or not and we have also been recipients of being hurt.

Example: David’s grief over a close friend’s betrayal in Psalm 55)
Through this brokenness in his pain and betrayal he reaches out to the lord in prayer

3-The brokenness of loss of loved ones, circumstances, health ailments, crises.
We have all been there are here now. We get that phone call with bad news or become distraught from the loss of a loved one.
Example: The prophet grieving over suffering and loss in Lamentations 3)
Though the profit speaks about his suffering and being downcast in his affliction he acknowledges that the lord for his back
”You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.“
Lamentations 3:58 NIV

4- rising from the ashes – broken lives that lead towards redemption. In anything we do we experience failures before we succeed. We don’t always. So something perfectly the first time we start something. It’s like the saying goes if at first your don’t succeed, try and try again.

Example: The entire book of Hosea, where God prophesies how he will redeem a broken people and lead them from sinfulness to healing.)
As we feel that cracking don’t give up and feel downtrodden get up try again so Better
No one is successful at anything upon the first try.
5-the brokenness in Jesus’s that led to our salvation

Examples: Jesus’s agony in Gethsemane in Mark 14:32-42, Jesus’s despair on the cross in Matthew 27:45-46,  and Hebrews 2:9-18, where it’s explained that because Jesus was broken and suffered, He can meet us exactly where we are at, extending mercy in our time of need.)

6- the Brokenness of his people.
This references the pain, the torment of the Hebrews. The Hebrews were feared throughout history verses embraced for being Gods children’s. This “brokenness of my people” referred to in Jeremiah–the judgment of God on Israel because of their rebellion and hard hearts. It also refers to the act of God in regard to His enemies and the finality of their defeat, as in Proverbs 6:12,15. See also Psalm 60:1; Proverbs 29:1; Isaiah 65:14; and Ezekiel 32:28, among many others.)

Society refer to brokenness as like one has fallen or succumbed. Modern day biblical uses of the word varies as well. The unbiblical usage serves toemphasize our own experiences and perspectives and soften some ratherunattractive realities that need to be faced about ourselves rather than softened: Sin. Rebellion. Selfishness. Pride. Hatred toward God. Which we also see samples of from men and when in the Bible in their moment of brokenness before their transformations.

In our brokenness we shift responsibilities as in our circumstances. We aren’t rebels, we’re broken. We aren’t sinners, we’re broken. We readily adopt a more forgiving opinion of our own hearts, and see ourselves as victims of circumstance. Even unbelievers are comfortable taking on the “broken” identity, a fact which ought to give thoughtful Christians pause.

The term “broken” is passive. It begs the question, “Who broke us?” It implies that the fact we are broken is someone else’s fault. Somehow, someone broke us and our world and we are living with and dealing with the consequences as best we can. We can tend to see ourselves as bravely facing our problems; responsible only for being as gentle with ourselves and others as possible, to prevent further breakage. We suspend all judgment,even biblical judgment, because who are we, who are just as broken as you are, to point fingers?

Dear Christian, this is the subtlety of the devil. If he can convince people that to be Christian means to admit that we are merely broken and need healing, we readily settle on a distorted picture of who we really are and what we truly need. That we are hurting is easy to see and admit. But a more serious diagnosis is necessary.
The Bible describes mankind in his natural, godless, sinful state in the most unsavory of terms. We are not only wicked, we are thoroughly wicked. GENEISS6:5

We are also called fools. And corrupt.  Psalms 14:1

We are deceitful& desperately sick? Jeremiah 17:9

The brokenness of the Bible comes when we realize these things are true about ourselves. We have nothing good in us and are in serious trouble with God, however uncomfortable we are in admitting this is true. This is when we arrive at the point of spiritual bankruptcy, where we are brought to understand that we are “dead in our trespasses and sins” (Eph. 2:1). This is the brokenness David referred to in Psalm 51, to which he had come as a result of his own terrible sin. This brokenness can be defined as humility before God.

The Bible speaks that he is near us when we are brokenhearted and in pain Psalm 34:18

We aren’t just “broken people living in a broken world”. We are proudsinners living in a rebellious and cursed world–in need of being broken. We need to be humbled, and brought to where we see our desperate need. Those who do not will face serious and lasting consequences. Prob 29:1

The Bible shows Jesus to endured brokeness it’s it various forms and at the end of it, he sacrificed himself for all of us,so we can be renewed and redeemed.
In moments of despair, seek God.
in moments of pain, seek God.
In moments of heartbreak, seek God.
In your solitude, seek God.
Gather with him. Submit to him so he can heal you, redeem you help you. Sometimes we do need to be broken and cracked so something better can from the situation. Just make sure that when you do, your with Jesus so he can guide you and transform you into something anew. That’s why he says give me your burdens, you need rest, you need to refresh. Trust in me he says.



Father I thank you for everything you do for me. I thank you for your love, mercy and provisions. I thank you for the strength that you give me. I thank you for your guidance. Today in my brokenness I come before you submitting myself at your feet to help heal me from these feelings and this brokenness. I ask you to crack me like an egg and make me into something new. I lean not on my own understanding but on you. I come to you for to release my burdens and trusting in you. In the name of the father the son and Holy Spirit amen.