Culturally Irrelevant

My brother recently commented on an old post about choosing weakness. He included a link to an article on brokenness. It’s pretty much eating my lunch right now. Here’s the link and a few excerpts:

http://path2prayer.com/site/1/docs/Demoss_Choosing_Brokenness.pdf

“You and I will never meet God in revival, until we first meet Him in brokenness.”

“Ultimately, brokenness is a matter of surrendering control of my life to God, much as the horse that has been broken is sensitive and responsive to the wishes and direction of its rider.”  

“How can we know if our hearts are proud or broken?  Proud people focus on the failures of others; they have a critical, fault-finding spirit. They look at everyone else’s faults with a microscope, but their own with a telescope. By contrast, broken people are overwhelmed with a sense of their own spiritual need. Therefore they can esteem all others better than themselves. Proud people have to prove that they are right, but broken people are willing to yield the right to be right. Proud people are quick to take offense; but broken people are quick to forgive and overlook offenses.”

Excerpts from “Revival in the Heart: Choosing Brokenness” by Nancy Leigh DeMoss