Broken Vessels

The curse and the blessing of who God made me to be is this….

He allows me to see the brokenness. 

I see it in his church.

The local church and the global.

Because of this He is calling me 

Up and out

To speak up.

To be bold.

Where once I would 

Pray and keep quiet.

This is what He said to me

“Broken Vessels

Hold

My Glory

Broken Systems

Hold

Nothing”

This is what I see.

I see His beauty in us. 

The more broken the person. 

The more He heals and the more He fills.

The more cracks we expose to the world 

The more we show the world who He is through us.

He is the gold that refines. He is the gold that strengthens.

He is the gold that fills in our emptiness, our hurts, our scars.

So do not hide your brokenness. 

Expose the Glory of God in you, don’t deny Him this.

Bride of Christ, you are beautiful when you let him shine through.

When you acknowledge your brokenness 

He can show His Glory in and through you.

I also see this with great sadness

I see the brokenness in our systems

The systems we use.

They entertain instead of teach.

They control instead of empower.

They exist to grow us and yet…

We wither, we grow cold and we slip away.

An entire generation slips away

The systems don’t save

The systems don’t grow

The systems don’t strengthen 

The bride. They make her weak.

We have so many systems in place 

But we have forgotten the most important

I see the broken crying out 

For gold to fill their cracks

I see a church too broken

To reach the lost

To teach their members

To live their lives to the ends of the earth

No matter the cost.

I hear Him

He wants us 

Just us

To live eyes and souls wide open

To be His hands and feet

To love our neighbors 

To pray and worship with abandon 

To burry ourselves in his His word

To grow and produce fruit through the living water of His Spirit 

It’s time