Bring the breaking in me, reduce me to love.

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The truth is that God loves broken ground.

I have the blessing of living in farm country, and there is not a more lovely sight than good dirt turned over to the sky. When you see earth that is almost black against a blue spring sky you can not help but imagine the harvest that is going to stand in that field come fall.

Broken ground is ready to recieve a seed, whereas hard ground can not.

Sometimes our hearts grow hard when we have protected it from pain for a long time. Other times we will our hearts to grow hard because feeling what is in them is too painful. This is not too hard for God. His word says he will take your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh to replace it. He will help you to feel again. He willl sow his words in your heart and you will see a harvest of love, joy and true peace.

Broken ground allows roots to run deep.

There are times that we come to the end of our own strength. We feel plowed through, exposed to the elements. Undone. This is the place of healing. In my garden I have noticed one thing over and over, the plants I don’t want, have deep roots, while the plants I paid for seem to pull right out, sometimes entangled in the weeds that grow near them. Open ground lets us get to the roots that were hiding deep under ground. Roots of pains and hurts that were so deep we covered them with a lot of dirt. But the truth is no matter how much dirt that root is burried under it always threw up new shoots. When God brings you to a place where the dirt off your secret pains is thrown off, it is not so you can be ashamed, it is not so you can be exposed, it is simply because He wants you to ask him to lift it out of you. Jesus is the master gardener. If I want a good harvest you know the weeds have to go. How much more does the God that created you, desire for you to have a harvest of abundance in your own life. The breaking is all part of the cycle of planting and harvesting.

God is faithful, when no one else is.

God is truth, when the voice in your head lies to you.

God wants you whole. You are His own.

I have had a time of breaking, a few months past. I did not enjoy it, I did not ask for it. In fact I was having a hard time figuring out what to do with all of these horrible feelings that were surfacing in me. I wrote and prayed and met an impass. I wanted to get past my past but could not in my own strength get closure, but God was faithful to bring me some helpers, a call out of the blue and a small group bible study that gave me a place to talk. I had some ground that was stomped hard by things that happened in my life. I had ground that was hard because of sin I did knowingly. Let’s not be shocked, we are sinners by nature. God did not care if the sin was my own, or situations I had no choice in, He only wanted me free from them all of them.

His word was my comfort and instructor, but in the end I had to share my self with the God that made me. I had to be exposed, to be known. You can not clean a part of you if you do not first expose it to the water. This is the heart of repentance. Speaking to God about who you are and asking Him if he still can love you when you continue to fall short.

He is faithful. I am not rejected. I am both sheltered and armored by God. My heart feels lighter and I am not left broken. God took the roots of bitterness and pain and planted a seed. He folded under the flesh of my heart an incorruptable seed of healing. I will water it with His words. I will continue to pull the choking weeds, because God promises I will reap a harvest, and I plan on sharing. God is faithful, when all others are faithless. Trust in Him and know His healing mercy.