I heard this song on the radio on one of the christian stations, I wish I knew what it was called or maybe some other line so I could find it and hear it again, but one of the lines said, “Take me as I am cause I’m broken” or something to that effect. After being at Revolve Tour this weekend, that song just touched my heart, because in so many ways, my life has been broken, it’s been a shattered piece of glass at times, and it has been a beautiful piece of glass at times too. But what I really got out of that song, was God uses us in our brokeness. He shows us in our heartache His desire to be our everything and how much He loves us.
When I was driving home from Revolve with a good friend, we were talking about the conference, what we liked, what we didn’t, and kinda got to talking about how the people that have been influences in our lives have been the people who have had a rough past and overcame it, who have a story to tell about their journey with God. They share their hardships with overcoming an addiction, or a broken home life, or a struggle with a particular sin, or whatever it may be, and through their story we connect dots with ours, and are encouraged to get out of the bonds of sin that hold us. It was the same type of thing at Revolve, one of the things I noticed was that not one of the speakers up there had a perfect life, they all had pretty significantly rough things that they had to overcome at a rather young age. I found that so encouraging, that some of the best people in that field, and some of the most amazing influences to Christianity are using their messed up broken past, to reach out, and to show people there is a way out and his name is Jesus.
So thats where my facebook status came from, the one that said, “Take me as I am cause I’m broken, but use my brokeness to make a difference in this world. This is my prayer to You.” I just pray that my life and my struggles can someday help someone, that maybe the reason I went through them was so that God could use me in the future and I needed that experience in my life to be able to make a difference. As Natalie Grant’s new shirt says, I want to be a “World Changer” and use the hard things I have suffered through to share Jesus and his power and love to others. So my encouragement to you, is to remember that God has a reason for everything that happens, and maybe his reason is so you have something to share later in life, maybe something that happened to you 10 years ago will be something that brings someone else to Christ.
Who knows, Just a thought.
