This is Painful.
Are you broken? I am considering this question from several angles. It is necessary to allow God to break you in some areas....to remold any given area to reflect His glory. This is painful. At times I have willing submitted to a known area of needed breaking down and fixing. And at other times, I have been broken and fixed......screaming and kicking, all the way to the potter's wheel! It hurt each time, willing or unwilling. Each choice brought a different form of pain. Yet each time there is a beauty that appears in my character that I have to acknowledge would have never of happened unless the breaking occurred. Oh! Sometimes.... I can see the crack of "less than" concerning His will in my life. At times it is glaringly obvious to others and myself. At times it is a struggle for me to understand or see the less than divine nature I exhibit. God wants to conform you and I into the image of Jesus Christ. This is painful. Our natural man appears deformed spiritually and ...