Beyond the Broken

Have you ever used the phrase, “can’t see the forest for the trees”? I have. It is saying in essence that we can’t see the big picture because we are surrounded by what is in front of and surrounding us.

Trials and troubles can be that way. It is so very easy to focus on what is happening right now that we are blinded to what lies ahead.

I recently have been in a health situation that had this very effect on me. It was so debilitating and seemed like it was never ending. It was incredibly hard to be aware of anything else except for how drastically, overnight my life had changed. One day I was a very active wife, mom, involved in ministry, and business owner. The next day I was so weak I could barely put one foot in front of the other. Days turned into weeks, and weeks into months of feeling like I was in something akin to an aware vegetative state. I was literally and invalid. The devil began to tell me that I was INvalid.

However just about every day, I would hear the name of this group on the Blog and on FB; BEYOND THE BROKEN. Nothing else, just three words; BEYOND THE BROKEN.

I feel like Jesus is still speaking revelation to me about this, but here are a few things that are stirring in me right now.

First let’s look at some definitions:

BEYOND-----

1-To the further side of

2-Happening or continuing after

3-The unknown

Jesus has proven throughout scripture, and in the testimonies of His children that there is always “the other side”.

One of my mentors who fills a Mother role in my life is known for saying, “it wont always be this way”. She has said it to me often and at times I’ve rolled my eyes thinking, “if you say so.” However, I now say it often to others, because Jesus has proven her words to be true time and again.

BROKEN----

1-Reduced to fragments,

2-ruptured,

3- torn,

4-fractured,

It’s ok, in fact its very healthy and empowering to acknowledge that right now I feel ruptured, torn, fractured and reduced to fragments. I believe that until we recognize and accept that we are in a broken season, we never completely take it to Jesus so that He can begin the restoration process.

If we never submit it to Him then there is no possibility of BEYOND.

My recent season of brokenness (notice I said “recent”. God’s grace has brought me through over and over) was one that seemed never ending. It wasn’t until I quit, “kicking against the pricks” that I was able to find my peace in the midst of the storm.

When I quit trying to deny and ignore it, I was able to lay it at the feet of the one who knows the end from the beginning and holds my life in His gently nail scarred hands. Once, I truly gave it to Him and found contentment in waiting on Him, I began to see what could be BEYOND.

JESUS WAS IN MY BEYOND! I came to know my Jesus through my Brokenness in ways that I never would have known him without it. I was able to leave the brokenness behind, but bring ALL OF THE GLORY that was revealed to me into my BEYOND! OH WHAT TREASURE!!!

So, if today you find yourself ruptured, fractured, torn, reduced to fragments-- BROKEN, you can know that there is a BEYOND. There is an “on the other side”. There is a “continuing after”.

Jesus is with you now in your BROKENNESS waiting with excitement to reveal Himself to you so that you will know HIM in an even sweeter dimension in your BEYOND!

Recognize that you are in a season of Brokenness, submit it to Jesus EVERYDAY, then begin to pray and look for deeper and sweeter revelations of Jesus that you will be able to take with you into your BEYOND!

YOU ARE ANOINTED, CHOSEN AND CHERISHED

Invalid defined:

A person made weak or disabled by illness or injury

Inconsequential, void,