“Dear Lord Jesus, help me to enter into a deep communion with you in this season of reflection of your great payment to purchase me the pardon from all my past, present and even future sins. Lord help me to walk with you outside the city gate to witness the pain, suffering you took upon you to bring me into this freedom and rest. ” Amen.

Usually ‘warehouses’ are located in the outskirts of a city. And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make us holy through his own blood. Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.

Below are the raw materials for our healthy dosage of christian brokenness from our Lord’s personal facets of ‘brokenness warehouse’.

As broken people, we are ’Work in progress’, like a product that is still in the Workshop, being made and developed.

• For even Jesus’ own brothers did not believe in him(John 7:5). Whenever I am being blamed and my reputation is affected, my testimony is not accepted and wrong things are spoken about me and my reputation- still, I bend my head in submission and my eyes are looking up to Jesus in true surrender and submission, that is brokenness.

• Publically if I am rejected and in my place someone was selected. Even if they shout and say “bind her/him” and free Barabas as in  Luke 23:18. If I even hear such terrible words I would look in true submission and surrender with humility. I accept my rejection as brokenness.

Personally I experienced as a family the rejection from the community where we came to serve like a sting of Scorpion but eventually we could proceed for years here.  

• Without bitterness if I could accept the situation when all my efforts of long term hard work is damaged and destroyed by the selfishness of few people, my eyes would look up to Jesus and yield myself without holding back, as Jesus gave himself to those who came to take him and crucify him to the cross as in  Matthew 27:31,’After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him’.

Even if that seems a  failure. With the onset of Covid 19  our  work had to come to an end with the service at school. I will accept Him genuinely and my eyes will look up to Him without any tint of bitterness in my heart that is brokenness.Our service continues on even beyond these limitations.