God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 51
GOD BUILDS BROKENNESS INTO PRAISE
For You will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; You will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Do good to Zion in Your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem;
Then will You delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on Your altar. (Psalm 51:16-19)
God isn’t looking for showy sacrifices; He’s looking for humble hearts.
The outward forms of religion do nothing to purge the inner stain of sin. Only repentance does that, and true repentance always includes brokenness. It may not be the weeping repentance of a downcast heart, but those who are truly seeking God’s forgiveness must always know the brokenness of their life without Him.
However, God doesn’t want His children to STAY broken!
Yes, brokenness is the doorway to healing, but God loves to restore through the process of repentance because He loves His children. Our Father is the Master Builder. He creates new life out of dead hearts and restores broken things to better than they were before.
So, whatever pain or problem you’re experiencing right now, may you take heart and find hope in this truth: God builds brokenness into praise.
-Pastor Phillip
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