You,
“All
in because your heart is broken.”
The broken heart is the one
most open to God. Let me rephrase that, the heart that is aware of its own
brokenness is the one that God can truly use. There has always been these jokes
about Christianity and Church rats and losers and humbled fools. There is an
outer case of what the Christian is that always look more backward than
forward. The mere scent of the ideal of Christ is enmity to the gross vanity of
this world.
The rats, the losers, the
humble and the fools are the sort of people God speaks to in their dark. They have
lost everything but their broken hearts. They are ready.
This might seem a little
anti- what we know. We have built up a culture of believing that God is looking
for the best and the brightest. We have been told He likes us in nice suits and
neat surroundings. That the church should be a temple and that the world should
envy our take on all the things the world is doing wrong. This is utter rubbish
of course. Nothing in the life of Christ suggests that. Nothing in the history
of God calling people out suggests that. It is something we have made up out of
our own spiritual insecurity and fear.
Instead of embracing our
brokenness, instead of letting that insecurity and fear be an open wound God
can heal we have done a dance and skip and turned it into a god. It has become
the voice that guides us. It has made us liars and thieves and cover up
specialists. We have turned the real temple of God into a marketplace for ideas
that have nothing to do with the questions of the empty soul.
We have no power now because
we are disconnected from source and we are acting like everyone else. We cannot
tell anyone to be better because we refuse to know any better.

The kingdom is for the
church rats and losers and humbled fools. The Kingdom is designed in the shape
of a broken heart mending.