“Life’s brokenness just creates cracks to let the light in so Jesus can shine brighter.”

By Misty Strieff Prine

“God rebuilds you right in front of people who broke you. Trust me, you don’t need revenge, you need faith.” – Unknown.

This was on my heart to write as one of my devotionals on my Facebook devotional page “The Upward Way” the other night and I wanted to share with all of you in case you are not a member of that page to have seen it. I really feel like it was meant for everyone to see.

Trust me when I say, this is one of God’s BIGGEST ways to not only draw you closer to Him but for you to truly see God’s ability to turn complete brokenness into something beautiful. I am a living, breathing, walking testament of this more times than I can count. In many ways, being hurt by the very people that are supposed to lift you up, pray for you, celebrate and help further your ministry, encourage you, and love you through the rough stages in your life, are one of the most difficult things a Christian can experience and overcome. But here’s the thing. When you’ve had years upon years of that same hurt from multiple avenues, (church, career, life in general, etc.) but EACH time God shows up and shows out in such a way that you sit back and just are in complete and utter awe when you see what God turns that brokenness into! Wow. He does it every time!

His plan is SO grand and thought out and perfectly timed and every event has to happen for it to fall into place. As they say, we all must be broken for the light to shine through. For a moment I experienced weakness, and the enemy would start to get the upper hand, and my first thought would always be to quit writing, singing, be sad and gloomy…but that would be quitting ALL of the things GOD was having me do. That’s when it hit me. The enemy would win. No, no, NO! My Mama would always come through in a clutch and say, “Baby, the devil wouldn’t be fighting so hard to get you to quit if you weren’t doing something right.” So every time I find myself broken, no matter what the case may be, God gives me HIS strength and He always finds me a way to turn a mess into a message and a test into a testimony.

Revenge is never needed. You may feel that human emotion at first. After all, we are all human. However, if you have faith that God is going to work it all out for the good of those who love Him like He promises and you TRULY do, He’s going to work EVERYTHING OUT right in front of the very ones that broke you but do it in such a way that is humbling and shows your heart is in the place it should be. If you handle correctly, you will turn it around and become a witness to them. Now how about that?

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