Broken Spirit

Our world today seems to be all about fixing broken spirits. Fix those who are broken down in any way. It sounds marvelous, but it is incomprehensible in reality as long as we live in this sin-filled world. A lot of people don't believe this, a lot don't believe in the Bible in its entirety. People love to pick and choose the parts they want to believe and ignore or refute the rest. They'll explain away the things that are contrary to their desired beliefs.

When we encounter hard truths it is so easy to talk our way around them, pad them to our desired comfort level and leave it at that. But to face hard truths, to accept hard truths this is a much harder thing to do and according to God's word few are going to be able to do it. Is it any wonder many will read the following and reject it outright because it calls for sacrifice that they aren't in any way willing to make.

For those who read the following and comprehend the truth of it, most importantly the truth in GOD'S WORD, they will submit fully to God and His will -only by the power of the Holy Spirit, through the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! Of our own we can do NOTHING other than choose to submit to the only One who can do ALL things and through Him we will do all things.

Php_4:13  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

The Spiritual Man- by Watchman Nee

'A Broken Spirit

Psa 51:17  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

A broken spirit is one which trembles before God. Some Christians do not sense any uneasiness in their inner man after they have sinned. A healthy spirit will be broken before God—as was David’s—upon once having sinned. It is not difficult to restore to God those who have a broken spirit.

An Afflicted Spirit

“But to this man will I look: to the afflicted and contrite in spirit, and who trembleth at my word” (Is. 66.2 Darby).

Isa 66:2  For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. (KJV)

The spirit with which God is delighted is an afflicted one because it reverences Him and trembles at His Word.

Our spirit must be kept in continual reverential fear of the Lord

All self-reliance and self-conceit must be shattered; the Word of God must be accepted as the sole guide. The believer must possess within him a holy fear: he must have absolutely no confidence in himself: he must be as one whose spirit is so stricken that he dare not raise his head but humbly follows the command of God.

A hard and haughty spirit always impedes the way of obedience.

But when the cross is working deeply a believer comes to know himself. He realizes how undependable are his ideas, feelings and desires. Hence he dare not trust himself but trembles in all matters, acknowledging that except he be sustained by the power of God he shall unquestionably fail.

We must never be independent of God.

The moment our spirit ceases to tremble before Him at that precise moment it declares its independence from Him. Except we sense our helplessness we shall never trust in God. A spirit which trembles before Him shields one from defeat and helps him to truly apprehend God. '