Have you ever felt like your entire life has fallen apart? Plans fail. People disappoint you. Nothing makes sense. Everything is disarrayed. You don’t even know where to start picking up the pieces or how you would even go about it. And on top of all of that, God seems silent!
In my own journey, I have had periods of unemployment, grief, and being betrayed where I have just wondered, “God, why?” Sometimes it feels like our lives have been shattered. Sometimes it feels like we have been shattered.
In a previous post, we looked at how God allows afflictions into the lives of His people for their good. In Jeremiah, we see the instance of a potter taking a vessel that was disfigured and reworking it into a new form (Jeremiah 18:4). God often has to do this with us.
Over the course of our lives most people develop ungodly attitudes about their core identity and their approach to life. Then, we bring those mindsets into ALL of our relationships. The way we see things is not the way they truly are.
Sometimes the Father shatters our lives to make us take a real look at who we are, forcing us to recognize the dysfunctional areas of our lives. Only then, in reality and objectivity, do we invite His power in to rebuild and restore us.
I have had periods of unemployment that forced me to evaluate what I base my self-worth on, grief and trauma that made me confront dysfunctional mindsets, and betrayals that showed the shallowness of my own spiritual maturity. My Father stifled my plans so that He can reform and rebuild me. God shatters us because we need to be shattered. Indeed as the Psalmist says:
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.
Psalm 119:67 ESV
Meditation scriptures: John 15: 1-11; Hebrews 12:6-11
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