Pliable in His Hands

I lift my eyes toward the mountains. Where will my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth. —Psalm 121:1–2

Spiritual brokenness in a believer is meant to be an ongoing way of life. It’s agreeing with God about the true condition of your heart. Helpless. Poor and needy. Totally dependent upon His grace.

Further, brokenness isn’t primarily a feeling. True brokenness involves a choice. It’s our response of humility and obedience to the authority of His Word and the conviction of His Spirit.

Brokenness means responding to Him in complete surrender, allowing God to soften the soil of your heart, breaking up any clods of resistance. It means being soft and pliable in the Artist’s hands, not hardening yourself against however He chooses to shape you.

This is brokenness. And this may be what’s standing between you and a life that looks more like Christ’s steadfast ability and less like your stumbling inability. In choosing the pathway of humility and brokenness, He will lift you up and the pieces of your life will come together in one God-glorifying whole.

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The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings

©2012 Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Scripture taken from The CSB