The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
I’ve been meditating on this verse for the last few days and Papa has begun to show me that this verse depicts humility, total humility. This is the antithesis verse (at least to me) for James 4:6
which says “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
What God has shown me is that if I am not broken over my sin (whatever that sin might be – because God has no grading scale for sin, it’s either sin or it isn’t) then I am walking in pride. If I am not broken over my sin, then my heart is calloused.
Daddy, I pray I am always broken over my sin and continually aware of just how offensive it is to you. Help me to “sin no more” as Jesus commanded, but when I do, help me to always recognize the repulsiveness of my sin to You.
Ok what does being broken look like? Is it crying over your sin? Wailing and gnashing of teeth? What does brokeness over your sin look like?
I only know what brokenness looks like for me. I can’t judge the heart of another man. I suspect most people would weep in some fashion when they are truly broken.
All children do. In true repentance and brokenness, all my children cry. Some more than others, some in different ways, some longer than others… but they ALL cry. And since I have 476 kids, I have a pretty good statistical sampling…. 😉