The Era of Brokenness

I have heard the modern era of the Church described as the time of brokenness. This brokenness has manifested itself in our homes, our hearts, our churches, and our communities.

Divorce, illness, economic strife, alcoholism, pornography, and even modernism have fed this brokenness; much so in my own life. Sin. Our brokenness, my brokenness, is a result, a consequence, of the Fall of Man.

If this is the era of brokenness, what were the former days? I have heard the times of Christ named the 'Era of Fear' and the Middle Ages the 'Era of Guiltiness.'

No governmental program or religious institutionalization can end fear, wash away guilt, and make the broken whole. Thankfully, our hope is in the Lord. He does end fear; He does cleanse us of unrighteousness; He does make the broken whole again.

I believe the claim that we live in the era of brokenness. Our own families, congregations, neighborhoods, and minds are broken. Our purpose for life is to worship Him and make Him known, not our sins. With the Spirit dwelling within, we are Christ, as the Church, to our own broken lives and those we encounter everyday.

He wants to make us whole each day. Are we on our knees, broken, every day eager for His mending? Do we have the heart to mend the broken each day?

Perhaps the 'Era of Brokenness' is not all that bad. We are forced to be broken before Him. We need to let Him make us whole again.

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? - 1 John 5:4-5