"Brokenness" is the starting point for God's chosen vessel

Psalm 51

¹⁷ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
A broken and a contrite heart—
These, O God, You will not despise.

Just a reminder that God does not expect that we should stay positive and all-smiling all the time.

God can handle a broken and weak spirit if we choose to lay our broken and (seemingly) meaningless lives down at His precious feet as He graciously accepts it as a ‘living’ sacrifice.

Whatever we may be going through right now – however impossible our circumstances might look – let’s just take time to pour our hearts and cry out to our God of salvation! He knows how it feels (for He’s gone through the worst possible suffering in every aspect Himself) and He has endured till death on the cross. God comforts us in our deepest sorrow, and strengthens us in our genuine brokenness, for “through the burning crucible of desert, where holy men and prophets are cleansed and purged for God's great purpose, until at last, at the end of human strength, beaten into the dust from which he came, the metal is ready for the Maker’s hand”. (Quoted from the “Ten Commandments” script)

A broken spirit and a contrite heart
You will not despise, You will not despise
You desire truth in the inward parts
A broken spirit and a contrite heart

Lord, my heart is prone to wander
Prone to leave the God I love
Here’s my heart, Lord, take and seal it
Seal it for Your courts of love

- Don Harris and Marty Nystrom

God bless!