Brokenness and Blessedness

UV 1512/10,000 Brokenness and Blessedness

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2 v 13


We suffer deficiencies or shortages when we forsake the Lord who describes Himself in this uni-verse as the fountain or stream of living waters. He is the stream or fountain of inspiration of the good life or eternal life. This stream will never dry up. Hence, none of the receptacles or vessels of our lives will be empty or found wanting. Instead, we make for ourselves broken vessels that cannot hold any water, leaking vessels that will soon run dry. It implies that we do not listen to the voice or the Word of the Lord. We hasten to satisfy our own desires and lusts and hence, will be frustrated. Those who drink the living water will be fully satisfied. The Lord will open up streams of living waters from inside their hearts that will swell up into eternal life. The stream flows from the throne of God and of the Lamb Jesus.

Recently, in a time of prayer, the Lord promised to open six new streams in our lives. We will draw with joy living water or wisdom or whatever we need for the abundant life from the wells of joy. Each uni-verse or promise in the Word is a well of joy. It fills us with assurance that the Lord who is sovereign and all powerful is in control of our lives. It fills us with the confidence to face today and the hope to face tomorrow. People who forsake the Lord have exchanged what is glorious and gracious for what is shameful and unprofitable. People who trust the Lord exchange what is shameful and disgraceful for what is glorious and gracious. People who live without a personal knowledge of the Lord are compared to wells without water, clouds without moisture. The whole world is like a valley of dry bones that Ezekiel prophesied about. It is the hope and love and other fruit of the Spirit of God that is crystallised in the Word of God that causes the dry bones to come together again with sinews, tissues and organs and to live forever. The great books and self help literature as well as books and teachings on life and leadership of the world have not brought any significant change in the people who either wrote or read them as these are like broken vessels.

Though we are broken people or broken vessels, as long as we are immersed in the everlasting fountain of the Lord, we will be filled with His grace and glory. The people who forsake the Lord pretend as if they are whole and complete in themselves but are in fact, broken into shards. But in our brokenness before the Lord, He blesses us and makes us a blessing for from the leaks in our vessels, others will receive blessings by hearing about how the Lord plugged our leaks and made us useful vessels in His hand. When the Divine Potter puts together broken vessels, we become more beautiful, cleaner, stronger and more useful than ever before. As vessels of the Lord, we must hold the promises and commands of the Lord dear and precious to us. Then, the Lord seeing that we are drawing water from His wells with joy will translate the words into amazing reality.

Prateep V Philip