What does it take to bring Jesus to a broken world?
First and foremost, you need to bring Jesus to a broken you. I need to bring Jesus to a broken me. Until Jesus starts occupying the broken places in your life—I’m sorry, it doesn’t matter how smart you are, how educated you are, how highly trained you are, you’re just not positioned to do a whole lot of good.
Here’s why…
We replicate who we are—with all our hurts and hangups. We’ll think we’re doing good, we’ll think we’re doing God’s work, we’ll think we have an amazing ministry, but we’re just replicating ourselves with all our blind spots in other people.
It’s just a law—we reproduce who we are. My four kids look like my wife and me. We reproduce who we are. That’s true physically, and it’s true spiritually.
Years ago I heard people say: Those who God uses greatly He hurts deeply. I don’t think that’s exactly true. First of all, God doesn’t hurt people. God heals people. But, more to the point, all of us are hurt deeply. That’s part of the human condition.
The difference is this: Not everyone has found the courage to take Jesus to those places of pain. And until you and I bring Jesus to our own brokenness, we’re not equipped to bring Jesus to a broken world. So that’s step #1, and it remains step #1 throughout our lives.
Be encouraged!
Dwight
