Restore my brokenness!

 

When was the last time you had a good bawl? No, not cry but weep, a snivelling wail from the heart where tears and snot combine and fall from your chin?

You know, sometimes we can be so pious in our crying out to God that it stifles our being honest with Him.

If there’s a time to be yourself, to just let all your defences down and expose the true you, it’s when you come to God.

Beloved, He already knows what’s in your heart. He already knows what you’re carrying deepest within you. So, why not be real? Just be yourself.

You want God to move upon your life, but you’re holding back from Him.

You want God to restore your brokenness, but you approach Him with an air of aloofness.

This may sound foolish but even though God already knows everything about you, He still wants you to reveal yourself to Him. God wants you to let it all out – the anger, the hate, the bitterness, the resentment, and the pain – because that’s how you’ll get free. Don’t you want to be free?

You’ve carried the burden of your brokenness far too long. God wants to restore what’s been broken in your life. Will you not let Him?

Sunrise over Balata Trinidad

It’s a brand-new day, aren’t you willing to be real with God and allow Him to be real with you? Yes, it is painful for you, but it will yield good results.

David, of whom God said was a man after His own heart, was incredibly honest, open, and transparent with God and through it all, remained confident that God would restore his brokenness. Just read the Psalms he wrote, and you’ll see what I mean.

“You have sent troubles and suffering on me, but you will restore my strength” – Psalm 71:20 (GNT)

David held nothing back; his writings express a roller-coaster of emotional highs and lows, joy and sorrow, pain, fear, elation and praise. David poured himself out to God – everything he was, and everything he felt.

We have all been broken in one way or the other. We are like broken vessels, and only God can fully restore us.

Beloved, God is the Restorer of your brokenness.

Isn't it time you had a good bawl?

Go to God, drop your hands down and pour yourself out and shout, "Restore my brokenness!"

 

Amen †

 

 

Shelley Johnson “Restore my brokenness!” © 2015 revisited September 4, 2025