Brokenness is desired more than Significance?
Brokenness is better than significance?
Today’s Daily Scripture: Jeremiah 7:22-23
When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not burnt offerings and sacrifices I wanted from them. This is what I told them: ‘Obey me, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Only do as I say, and all will be well!’
How much time do we concern ourselves with achieving a goal and accomplishing something significant? Do we feel that we should be admired if we lay down our lives for a good cause?
What should the focus of our lives be? There is a desire to achieve greatness not just for ourselves but to serve even a greater good. When we serve the greater good we tend to feel that we have achieved a level of significance that justifies our life and justifies our being here on earth. Laying down our lives for a cause , calling, or a purpose is seen as valuable and even significant.
I believe this desire is a God given desire, but like all other parts of our human existence, even this desire has been diseased and corrupted by sin. Now, we feel that we can justify our lives by our performance. This desire to accomplish something significant in life needs to be put in perspective. The correct perspective is that God is the creator of the world. He is the great designer and architect of us and the world. God does not depend on us to accomplish anything.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
What does God desire of us then?
You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
God does not desire our accomplishments but he desires our recognition of our nothingness without him. “..Those who lose their life for my sake will find it.” (Matt. 10:39)
Let us put our lives in perspective. Let the greatness and the holiness of God break us and bring us to our knees every day. It is on our knees not on the pedestal of greatness that we will find that “all is well” (Jer. 7:24)
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