Broken into Freedom

   A massively powerful figure with a stern visage holds a priceless vase, He looks at the vase thoughtfully, and then drops it. It shatters into a thousand pieces, never to be the same. So it is, or so we think it is. It seems for some reason we think that this or some variation of this is what it is like for God to break us. However it is just not true, God is not the author of pain, He does however give you grace to overcome it as you abide in Him. He also uses this pain to help with or accelerate the process outlined and illustrated below. Romans 8:28

  There once was an egg, and the egg was broken. Out of this egg came a worm, the worm lived, it grew, it changed colors, it developed antenna, and did the things that worms do. One day, the worm is done, done with life as a worm, and so it forms a shell, and boxes itself in. It remains in this shell of it's own making for quite some time, it seems safe in here, and yet for some reason, in some divinely ordered way the shell breaks, it is broken, and the worm is dead. In some divinely ordered way, this shell has been broken in just such a time and way, that the worm is dead, and the butterfly has come forth into a new life as designed by the creator. This butterfly then spends its days flitting above the worms, and splashing it's colors and cheer within the gorgeous color display that is summer. The butterfly has a freedom that escapes other insects. The butterfly was led by a divine order, in some way it knew it was not actually a worm, but a butterfly, in some way when the time was right, it quit living as a worm and just gave up. In a divinely ordered way, it died, and manifested as the butterfly it always was. To do this, it had to be broken twice, first as an egg, then as a shell, and it had to die to it's "worm nature." Rather, it had to realize by a divine instinct that it was not a worm, but a butterfly. To be led by those divinely given instincts is why it worked. It would not do for the worm to force itself out of the shell in it's own "wormly strength", for then it could not fly. It would not do for the butterfly to remain "safe" in the shell, for then it could not fly. 

  As a human, made in the image of God and given your own divine stamp of uniqueness, you to were made for more. You were not made to merely live as an intelligent mammal with a sense of right and wrong that eludes the animals. You were made for fellowship with God. I have written on this with a bird's eye view here. The following questions are for those who have accepted that message and have a connection with the only living God. Question is, do you believe that your old self has been crucified with Christ? Are you willing to trust God to fill you with Him so that you can fly in His time and way? Or do you wish to choose to live within the walls of your own making? Or maybe you wish to live life at a worm like crawl? What you believe about that person you see in the mirror has nothing to do with the reality of your sin nature being crucified, this has happened, and it is when you believe this and accept it as the truth that it is, that you can live as you are. A saint on earth.

  I believe that God ordained brokenness is not a matter of you being destroyed by God, but a matter of your old man being broken in order to set you free. If we could only see it from outside our own view, we would see that the breaking of our old Adam or Eve nature is the best thing, that old man nature is actually a prison. It's like living as a spiritual worm.  

Good reading here. 

Galatians 2:20 

-Loren