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To The Broken Ones

Because we weren't made to be broken.

Krystyn Flynn

Oct 25, 2016

Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

Krystyn Flynn

Being broken. Such a small concept behind such a big process. Some people break so easily, and others merely get dents until they self-destruct, but by then they're already shattered and just don't realize it. None of us are ever really quite sure when we shattered, but we've always been broken. At some point in life everyone breaks, but different things break different people. Some people heal, and they pick up their pieces and put them back together. Some people just do more damage trying to put their pieces back together. Maybe some pieces just don't fit together anymore, and they just can't seem to make any sense of what's already been broken.

But God didn't make us to be broken, he made us to thrive as people and to live for him. It's by his grace that our brokenness is healed, for His son didn't die so that we could be held down by our brokenness. He didn't sacrifice himself so that we could hate ourselves. He sacrificed his life so that we could live eternally within him, and live our lives by striving to honor him and be more like him. Our brokenness only holds us back from the potential we have as humans, and the amount of potential we have is endless. We are made so that we can glorify our God in all that we do. It is a shame to shit and not love yourself when you were made in the image and likeness of God. You would never hate God, so why should you ever hate yourself? We can't let our sins and brokenness weigh our souls down. We have to learn to forgive others, and ourselves, so that we may strive to be better, to glorify Him, to be a role model, and to be who we were made to be.

Because we weren't made to be broken.

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