Devotional Thoughts: The Breaking Point

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Life is full of moments when enough is enough. This can be in the small things and the significant things. Could it be that the breaking points we encounter are vital instruments in which God moves us into a particular action or direction. This is when we hit that rock bottom moment when change must happen. IT MUST. We are desperate for change because we are discontent with the current outcomes we are experiencing. An easy example is when we change our diets to become more healthy. Maybe we have gone through a long stretch of eating all the good stuff that is not really that good for us. We must change in order to feel better and become healthy again. Spiritually, we all have to change at times in order to live a life that is faithful to the One who has saved us. The spiritual rock bottom would have to be the circumstance in which God revealed to us that we needed a Savior, and we trusted in Jesus. That moment of conversion was a breaking point in which we came to the understanding that we had enough of the life apart from Christ. The former life was leading to death and destruction, and now the life in Christ is life secured. That initial breaking point leads to a refinement process that encounters many other breaking points. Some of these are small and some can be pretty significant. The transforming event of conversion is the greatest change of all, but along the journey of spiritual growth many victories are celebrated. Each time we overcome the influence of sin and turn towards the righteousness of God, we have come to the point of change after a breaking point. Sometimes the Lord provides this godly grief that breaks the callous demeanor we have put on towards sin. Once we have become sensitive to sin, we are then equipped and motivated to overcome sin to please the Lord that has saved us. Our salvation provides a joyous purpose to dwell in the presence of the Lord, and reject any tolerance of personal sin in our life. Sure it is still a battle every day not to give in to temptation. Our deepest desire, however, is to walk towards holiness each day that we may dwell in the presence of God forever. Praise God for leading me to the breaking points that lead me to repentance and urgent pursuit of faithfulness to Him. This is the place of joy and contentment. 

“One thing have I asked of the LORD,

that will I seek after:

that I may dwell in the house of the LORD

all the days of my life,

to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD

and to inquire in his temple.” -Psalm 27:4

“As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.” 2 Corinthians 7:9-11