Cast Down but Not Destroyed!

Claudette Glaude-Scott9 Comments on Cast Down but Not Destroyed!

What happens next? Previously, we looked at the issues and actions that left people wounded and broken. But what do you do if you were left broken and wounded by your brothers and sisters? Do you feel justified to lie in that place allowing your brokenness  to become your identity? That could be a dangerous place.

While it’s not easy to rise after being left for dead, it’s not impossible. We must change the way we think and work on the way we feel. It’s easy to stay in that place but it’s not spiritually healthy.  I have been broken and wounded and it has not been easy. I had to make a choice: do I lay here and die or do I get up. I chose to get up but that didn’t bring relief. I had to spend time with God in prayer and pray Psalm 139:23-24 NLT over my life. It says, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.”  Let me tell you, that pointing out part is not easy because God will do that; and He did.

I had to examine the emotions that developed because of being broken and wounded. I had to deal with them. I don’t know what emotions developed in your heart when you were wounded but I can tell you, left alone, it would not be God honoring. Did I throw up my hands and give up? Anybody who knows me knows that I don’t give up easily. I spent many days praying and unhealthy emotions as I work through those unhealthy emotions from my life.

Today, I give God thanks because I believe it made me a better person. There are things that God developed in me through my experience that would not be part of my life if I wasn’t wounded and broken. Start where you are and let God have His way in your life. Then one day you too can thank God for the experience because of the person who you have become through your experience.

Thought for Today: Friend, there is life after brokenness.

Have a blessed day and walk in faith and victory.

9 thoughts on “Cast Down but Not Destroyed!”

  1. AMEN, Pastor Scott! I felt this in my soul! May God continue to guide your path as you continue on your journey to a spiritually and emotionally healthier you. God bless you always and forever!
    🙏🏾😇🙏🏾

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  2. Thanks Pastor Scott. You are so transparent and real. Sometimes we tend to forget that pastors are human just like us, and go through the same challenges we do.
    This message has been an encouragement to me. Blessings and continue to share what God places on your heart.

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    1. Thank you, we all go through times and seasons of pain. It’s not if, it’s when. But through it all, God has promised us His presence. He will use our experiences as a blessing in the lives of others.

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  4. Thank you for awakening something in me. I have to re-examine myself and realign my heart with God’s word. Sometimes we forget.

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  5. I have been broken – no longer broken. I Truly believe most people was broken or are broken however, I was reminded that God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. I was able to empty myself so that my roots can go down in rich soil, doing that I was nurtured and produced the fruits of the Sprit found in Galatians 5:22. Reading your post reminder me of Gods grace. Thank you for sharing your heart.

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