Why Brokenness Leads to Breakthrough: God’s Powerful Process

What if I told you that the brokenness you feel in your life is not a sign of weakness, but a sign God is preparing you for a breakthrough? Too often, we give up and check out right before things are about to turn around because we become overwhelmed with trying to keep everything together ourselves. But we’re not called to keep it all together. We are called to surrender to God. So, in today’s video, I want to encourage you not to run from brokenness but instead to allow God to brightly shine through all the cracks. Stay tuned!

As much as my son loves to build with his legos and blocks and toys, I believe he almost equally loves to break those toys. On many occasions, I’ve found him with a new toy or gift broken into pieces. When I ask him what happened to his toy, he’ll say, “It broke.” 🤔 Now you and I both know the toy did not break itself.

Now his favorite toys to break are Lego sets. He has thousands of legos because we recognized early on that he was good at building and making things with his hands. I believe he’s an engineer like my husband. So we would (and still do) buy him these extensive LEGO sets, even ones categorized for kids above his age range and he will sit quietly on the floor of his room and put together these intricate and complex Lego creations. My husband and I are always so impressed with his building, but by the time I look away and get my phone to take a picture, the Lego building is broken. He takes all this time to build up his Lego creation only to break it back down. 

When I make something, I want to preserve it as long as I can because it takes time, effort, and energy to build. But my son doesn’t just enjoy what he builds. He thoroughly enjoys the process of building. So that means sometimes he has to break down what he's built to get the pieces he needs to make something new. 

In the same way, our Creator God, and Heavenly Father also enjoys building, creating, and making new things. So what does that mean? Well, since He can’t build something that’s already established, it means He needs pieces to work with.

Scripture:

Well, what are the pieces for Him to work with? You and me. Psalm 51:17 says:

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” (Psalm‬ ‭51‬:‭17‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

While we desire to keep it all together, God wants us broken. How many times have you said to yourself “oh I got to get myself together” or you told sometime else they need to “get it together”? But God doesn’t want us all together. He wants us broken, why? Because when we’re in pieces, He has something to work with. 

God doesn’t want us to be self-made. He wants us to be God-made. The scriptures tell us we are His workmanship, we are a masterpiece that He is in the process of making. We are His legos. He is building something greater than ourselves. But it’s a process of building, forming, and molding us into the women He desires. 2 Corinthians 4:6-7 says:

“For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.” (‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭4‬:‭6‬-‭7‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

God will break us to build us and build us back up, but He also does it to let light shine through. 

An egg must be broken for the nutrient sustenance to come out. A woman’s water must break for a baby to come through. Darkness has to break for light to shine through. 

Breaking is painful, but it’s not always bad. We’ve grown to believe that brokenness must be avoided at all times not realizing that brokenness is necessary.

We avoid brokenness because we think it makes us weak, but in the upside down Kingdom of God, it is brokenness that makes us better, it makes us stronger, it’s the very mechanism God uses to allow His strength, His light, and His power to shine through us. 

Yes we can strive, and fake it, and cover it up to keep it all together because we’re afraid that if we are not in control,everything will fall apart, but what we’re really afraid of is that we’ll fall apart but that’s the point. That our ways will be disrupted, that our cycles will fracture, that our hearts will break so that God can do a greater work in us because that is the only way His glory will shine through the cracks of our mistakes, our missteps, our weakness. Listen to how God created the earth. There wasn’t just building, there was also breaking. Genesis 1:2-4 says:

“The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.” (Genesis‬ ‭1‬:‭2‬-‭4‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

In order for light to shine through darkness, it had to break. In order for the light of Christ that is in you to shine through, God may break your heart, but a broken heart doesn’t mean you have to lose heart.

Our 2 Corinthians text continues at verse 8 saying:

“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.” (‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭4‬:‭8‬-‭10‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

Contrary to common belief, brokenness will not destroy you, but trying to keep it all together will. It’s time to let God have His way. Cry out, let go of control, let the pieces fall, and let God be the one to put you back together as He sees fit because He is faithful to do so better than we could have ever imagined.

When it feels like you’re breaking, that just may be a sign of a breakthrough, I invite you to watch this video to learn 3 signs you are about to experience a breakthrough. 

For more encouragement, download my free Bible Study, “Worry-Free,” to learn the 3 lies feeding your worry and the truth to set you free at belovedwomen.org. Thanks for watching, and until next time, be beautiful, blessed, and beloved.