Brokenness

We sang "Holiness" on Sunday. One of the verses goes:
"Brokenness, Brokenness is what I long for
Brokenness is what I need.
Brokenness, Brokenness is what You want from me"

and the chorus goes:
"Take my heart - and form it
Take my mind - transform it
Take my will - conform it
To Yours, To Your, O Lord.

During this verse a vision came to my head. I want to record it here.

To give a bit of background, this incorporates teaching from the weekend at Come to the Fire about God's Glory.

Glory is a word that is heavy with its idea that it holds within it all the attributes of God:

Infinite
Sovereign
Holy
Triune God
Omniscient
Faithful
Love
Omnipotent
Self-Existant
Self-Sufficient
Just
Immutable
Merciful
Eternal
Good
Gracious
Omnipresent
Truth
Healer
Comforter
Redeemer
Righteous
I AM
God of the Beginning
God of Justice
God of Forgiveness
God of Heights
God Who is Near
God of My Strength
God of My Praise
God of My Salvation
God with us
Holy God
Living God
God of Gods

This Glory is what we want to be filled with - but it's too heavy to be a thin substance! I picture it as a Jell-O-type substance.

Now make it glow-in-the-dark.

So now we have God's Glory in us - shining in the dark!

Then we become BROKEN -

Now picture a figuring (mine is a Willow Tree) that has been dropped and shattered. Tiny Tiny pieces!

But wait! There's the Jell-O Glory!

All the pieces are held in place - sort of - by the glowing Jello-O Glory of God!

We now have an outside figuring, representing ourselves, that has been made broken. The Glory of God now shines through. It also can now mold and shape this figuring.

WOW! Just think of what God can do in your life if He's got permission to mold and shape you. Just think of what God can do in the world if all Christians became filled with the Glory of God and were broken!

I want God's Glory in me!
I want to be broken!

Work in me, God...