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Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Psalm 51:10, 17

We are taught as kids to hate broken things. Broken toys. Broken bones. Broken promises. But that's not the way God looks at it. God delights in brokenness because it is in our brokenness that He can begin to do in our lives all the things that He longs to do.

Have you ever been broken? We're talking about this on the broadcast this week in the message, "God Shows Up.in Our Brokenness." Brokenness says not only, "God, I need You," but "God, You are all I need." Brokenness is a desperation for Him. It's empty-handedness before God. It has no-demands, and makes no-requests. Brokenness is falling into the embrace of your loving Father and finding Him to be enough. Brokenness is saying "no" to the clamoring voice of your flesh, "no" to the pride and self-confidence that has made you so restless and unhappy for so long and "yes" to the longing for God that is deep within every person's soul.

If I want God to work in me, what exactly must to be broken?, you may wonder. It's this-

My independence. "I can make it without You, God."

My willfulness. "You can't make me. You can't tell me."

My stubbornness. "I'm going to do this my way."

My pride. "I will protect my interests, my reputation, my position."

All of these attitudes keep God from showing up in our lives and so they are the things He goes after. He uses tools like: Broken health, broken careers, broken dreams, broken relationships, broken promises, or broken hearts.

The purpose of brokenness is to bring us to the point where we can say to God, "Not only do I need you, God, but You are all I need."