Jesus’ Passion for My Brokenness

Meditations for Ragamuffins

July 17, 2023

Jesus’ Passion for My Brokenness

“For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross.”

Colossians 1:19-20

The way of weakness was the way of the Cross for God in Christ Jesus. This is the price God paid to release me and you from the oppression of sin, brokenness, and death. Jesus wants me to see that in my brokenness, my weakness, he is strong.  It is when I embrace my brokenness that I can identify with Christ and with others.  Jesus wants me to identify with the pain of others, not relieve it; he wants me to care for others, not try and fix them.

As I learn to have patience in my brokenness, Jesus’ Word of Grace reminds me that my brokenness is not my true identity. I am what I am by the grace of God (1 Corinthians 15:10), not by my own humiliating definitions. I am fully known, yet totally justified by faith through grace. Nothing, neither my outward actions, nor my inner feelings, can diminish the worth given to me in the grace of God.

My Takeaway: In the late 1960’s, Glenn Turner founded his company, Dare to Be Great. One of the catch phrases that came out of his multi-level marketing company was, “Fake it until you make it.” Regrettably, many people go through life living by that motto. Brennan Manning says God loves us unconditionally, just as we are, not as we should be, because none of us are as we should be. However, too many of us try to live by the notion of what we should be, as defined by the world culture; we are trying to fake it until we make it. Lord have mercy! Christ has already made more out of us than the ways of the world ever can.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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