Brokenness

As I sang "take me Lord, my will I give to Thee, brake me Lord and set my spirit free...," the question just kept popping up in my mind: What does it mean to be broken? David writes in Psalm 51 "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." As I pondered the subject I asked the brother of mine what brokenness was all about. His reply: blessed are the poor in spirit. What do the poor in spirit have to do with anything says I? Poor in spirit means to have a small amount of your own spirit which is like having a broken spirit was his reply. In short we concluded that when you have a broken leg, your leg is still there, it just can't work on it's own. You must rely on crutches to get you around. Likewise when our spirits are broken, we cannot rely on our own spirit, we must rely on His! Blessing this week as you spirit is broken and you are conformed into His  image!