Brokenness

Ok, to start Liverpool lost to AC Milan 2-1 last night. Firstly, I would like to thank Gabriel for offering to pray for me last night. Really appreciate it but I understand God's hand in the whole game even in soccer.

To start, for Liverpool to enter the Champion's League Final ahead of Chelsea and Manchester United who finished the league 15 and 21 points respectively ahead of them (ahem) is already God's Grace and I thank him for that.

Secondly, the Lord is showing the team that it is necessary to be humble and be broken in order for greater works to appear in the team. Recently, I have noticed that the team have become arrogant in some aspects of the game and I believe God has to do some surgery in them as well.

This then brings me to ponder upon the issue of brokenness which has been mentioned by PS Khong last Sunday.

"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise." -Psalm 51:17.

Have you been injured in sports before?

Maybe a broken ankle or a dislocated shoulder from tennis?

I know I have injured my ankle many times when I was playing basketball in the past. But if you ask anyone, they would tell you that the worst injuries suffered in sports would be a broken part of the body. In the case of Cisse, it is a broken leg.

Years back, my brother suffered from a broken hand due to soccer when he was in secondary school. My father used to console him that a broken hand when healed will become stronger that what it used to be and this theory has actually been confirmed by doctors in the hospital.

Praise the Lord!

When God breaks you, he makes you stronger through his grace. I remember how I came to know the lord in the army. It was also due to a broken bone in my body, a broken finger to be exact.

Through a broken finger, the Lord took me out of BMT and put me in a situation where I had the time to come to know the lord through the people that he put around me and the opportunity to be a blessing to others in my camp. Through a broken finger, he showed me that I could not just rely on myself to get myself places in the army, not my results or my physical fitness.

When I tried on my own strength to go for my recourse and be a commander during my NS days when I recovered, the lord had to show me again that that was not my purpose in the army by giving me chicken pox during my first book out in my recourse, ( ironically, it was spread to me by my friend whom I brought to
church over the weekend), forcing me to return to Hendon camp to be a storeman for the rest of my army days.

When I came to realize that my results or achievements mean nothing as opposed to the greater designs that God has for my life, I understood that my calling and purpose in life can no longer be fulfiled by just achieving good results. I had to place my life in God's hands and just trust him for my life.I had to accept that God has a plan for me by placing me in the Commando Camp and I thank God for the blessings and I had to be broken not once but twice by God to show me his plan for my NS days.

Have you had a time in your life when you wanted something but the lord gave you something else? Maybe the Lord has something better for you and he just wants you to circumsize your future to him.

I know and I thank the Lord for the time of brokenness that he gave to me during my army days and I know that the continual breaking and repairing of my spiritual bones will make me stronger spiritually just like how a broken bone becomes stronger when healed.

I thank God for breaking me and I pray that the Lord will give you a powerful experience too. Amen.

“If the Lord bid me fly, I should trust Him for the wings.” John Wesley