When brokenness hits close to home through loss of any kind, it becomes personal. No longer are we worried about the future,but we are worried about our personal survival. Can I find a job? How will I pay the bills, feed my family? These questions plague  millions of unemployed people. 

Brokenness in a world trying to survive, frustrated by the economy woes, brokenness in families, and brokenness in our government, leaves people feeling hopeless.A sudden change in life creates an insurmountable amount of pressure. Loss of job combined with a loss of a loved one, and a life-threatening illness creates anxiety. More stress to an already overburdened mind, increases the brokenness of heart.

What can a person do to survive in this vast amount of brokenness?  To make any sense out of it, we pray to God to help us.The Scripture says in II Corinthians 4:17, “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.” When a Christian goes through these difficulties of pain, brokenness, failures, loss, this is to be seen in the perspective of eternity where it gets diminished in the  importance of eternal glory. 

If we yield to the breaking process it will be easier on us than if God has to force His breaking on us.

The Scripture says in  Psalm:32:9a, Unyielded people need to be more forcibly guided or restrained:  “Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle.” 

In the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:3 , Jesus says, “Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.” This  is the humble nature of the one who himself is insignificant and nothing really amounts to remaining poor in a broken state of mind. 

God’s servants must be wiser than the basic carnal nature in us, to be more open to God’s will and his plan as the horse or mule are to the will of their masters.