Are you willing to be broken?

Gen. 32:25-29 - When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered.  Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”  Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there. 

Are you willing to be broken? Most of us have heard and might, even said a few times – I have to break you, to make you. When it applies to us doing the breaking, we are all in, but if it is us being broke, not so much.  Even though, as Christians we know Christ came and was broken for us to be made whole. The obstacle is we refuse to submit to the thing that is sent to bless us, and we hold very tightly to what allows us to ‘be’ because it did come wrapped as we liked.

We wrestle, yes, like Jacob but we do not seek the blessing like Jacob, thus, we do not get to be blessed like Jacob.  Wrestle against and try to defeat what is sent to bless us, because we don’t want the pain of making ‘me’ over but it is good pain like working out. The more we fight, the more confounding everything becomes. Not submitting and seeking who or what it is, but cursing it.  Leaves us with a negative disposition, and not receiving the blessing or knowing what was sent to you for your good: we end up in a dark place of continued frustration. And many times  it appears, manifest in our lives in ways we didn’t envisioned or hoped, or God forbid, it didn’t happen for me, I was to be the platform for someone else. See, we think we know, and understand, but wisdom is when you know when, how, and where to use the information gained in life. So, are you willing to be broken so you can be blessed beyond your belief…We make the choice, but we do not make the consequences of our choices, and consequences do not discriminate they come to all…Think about it…