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Broken For Me

by | Mar 29, 2013 | Uncategorized | 5 comments

5-minute-friday-1BROKEN –

Funny that this would be the prompt for today. Just yesterday I read about Christ & His last supper. He reminded His followers, His friends, that the Bread represented His Body “broken for you”. To remember that His body was just that – broken – for me is a most sobering thought. Each & every time I partake of Communion, I am to remember the brokenness that He endured. He was broken so that He could come into my broken world & bring repair.

Mending hearts that have been broken.

Restoring dignity where it has been torn apart.

Healing, both physically & emotionally & mentally, where parts are unable to function properly.

Today I am reminded that He was broken so that my brokenness could be made whole.

He endured brokenness so that He could ask, “Do you want to be made whole?” (John 5:5).

I participated in the Five Minute Friday .


In My Thoughts,
Joanne

5 Comments

  1. Sue
    Sue on March 29, 2013 at 12:10 pm

    Hi there, I’m your neighbor from FMF…
    I, too, think of that broken during communion. As a child, we broke our wafer at communion to remind ourselves of this.
    And I love that you too see brokenness is a way of making us whole.
    Have a wonderful Friday and a Blessed Easter weekend!
    Sue

    • joanneviola
      joanneviola on March 29, 2013 at 12:32 pm

      I have never heard of breaking the wafer. How profound a reminder! Thank you for stopping by, reading & sharing your thought. May you have a wonderful Friday & a blessed Easter as well!!!

  2. jerralea
    jerralea on March 29, 2013 at 12:45 pm

    Beautiful reminder that He was broken for us. We break the communion wafer, too. Also, thanks for reminding us that He asks the question, “Do you want to be made whole?” Some long for wholeness but never ask for it from the One who can heal us totally.

    Hello from your 5 Min. neighbor!

    • joanneviola
      joanneviola on March 29, 2013 at 12:54 pm

      I am feeling like I have so missed out on the preciousness of breaking the wafer 🙂 I am so glad that you stopped by!

  3. Marilyn Saxon
    Marilyn Saxon on March 30, 2013 at 3:10 am

    Brokenness

    His body was broken so I can be made whole. He was/is the perfect son of man/Son of God. By accepting the Father’s will He allowed Himself to be broken…. not broken bones but in bearing our sins on the cross His unity with the Father was broken. God could not look upon the sins of the world all laid on Jesus. Maybe I can go as far to say…. relationship was broken with His Father (temporarily until His perfect sacrifice was finished).

    God has allowed brokenness in my life to mend me and train me to give all that I am and have unreservedly to Him. I take parts of me back with wrong thinking that I can do this…. and it ends up “my” way.. He is so full of love, grace and mercy. He draws me back as He reveals Himself in the Word. “I AM the way, the truth, and the life.”

    Marilyn
    South Carolina