I am a sinner, if it’s not one thing it’s another, caught up in words, tangled in lies | but you are a savior, and you take brokenness aside and make it beautiful, beautiful
-Brokenness Aside, All Sons & Daughters
So much truth for me to remember each day just from this one lyric. God uses our brokenness and our mistakes to glorify him, all we have to do is have faith and seek after him with all our hearts and Jesus makes us beautiful.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law weakened by flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
You (specifically to Christians in Rome in 57 A.D.; however, applicable to all who follow Christ), however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who also raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies though his Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 8:1-11
Jesus heals the broken, and uses their faith to shame the wise (just look at the first disciples and especially the apostle Paul). Following Jesus is placing trust in him a your Lord and savior, he will take your faith and use it to change your heart from the inside out, laying all brokenness aside, and fully serving him who saved you. Take that step up faith, open up the bible that’s been gathering dust, spend some time in prayer asking God to reveal your eyes to his glory, thanking him for the love he showed you, and asking for faith and the Spirit of God. True joy (not temporary happiness) is only revealed to us through faith in Jesus.
pandemicgospel 