Love and Brokenness Study

 Take a look at the mountains, Stretching a mile high, Take a look at the ocean, Far as your eye can see.

And think of Me, Take a look at the desert, Do you feel like a grain of sand? I am with you wherever

Where you go is where I am, And I'm always thinking of you, Take a look around you, I'm spelling it out one by one, I love you more than the sun And the stars that I taught how to shine, You are mine, and you shine for me too, I love you yesterday and today And tomorrow, I'll say it again and again, I love you more

Just a face in the city, Just a tear on a crowded street, But you are one in a million And you belong to Me.

If grace was a kingdom, I'd stopped at the gate, Thinkin' I don't deserve to pass through, After all the mistakes that I've made, Oh, but I heard a whisper as Heaven bent down, Said, "Child, don't you know that the first will be last And the last get a crown", Now I'm just a beggar in the presence of a King

I wish I could bring so much more, But if it's true, You use broken things, Then here I am Lord, I'm all Yours, Whoa-oh-oh-oh, Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, The pages of history, they tell me it's true, That it's never the perfect, It's always the ones with the scars that You use, Oh, it's the rebels and the prodigals, It's the humble and the weak, All the misfit heroes You chose, Tell me there's hope for sinners like me.

We see here how God can love us more than the sun and the stars in the sky that He created. We see here that He can take the broken things and craft them into something beautiful.

I want us to look at some scriptures now. The scriptures we are going to be looking at tonight are 1 John 3 verse 1, Matthew 22 verse 37-39, 1 John 4 verse 7-21, Ephesians 2 verse 4-5, Psalm 86 verse 15. 1 Peter 4 verse 8, 1 John 4 verse 11. Isaiah 53 verse 6, John 3 verse 16, Hebrews 4 verse 12, and Hebrews 11 verse 1-40. We see in the scriptures, how God is using us for His Glory and how we can walk by Faith and not by sight. We see how God loves all His Children and how He takes the broken things, the pieces that are shattered, and picks them up because just like in that last scripture we read tonight, our Faith and our Faith alone is an assurance of things hoped for and of things yet not seen. We don't ever walk this Faith journey alone. We don't go through the broken chapters that is our testimony and that is still being crafted in the scrapbook of which we can look at how we feel at times sad because the enemy tries to remind us that we are not worthy or that we are unloved, or we can look at it as a way of seeing how God reminds us that we are loved and that we do have worth in the eyes of Him. You see the difference between the enemy and God, is that the enemy will do anything to say the things that you go through of the broken chapters that are things that are beyond repairing, and that You're unloved because how can God love us despite our brokenness of things we deal with. See that's where God reminds that He still loves us beyond all that and that He loves us more than the sun and stars He created because the broken chapters are worth repairing in the eyes of our Savior and He reminds us that the enemy doesn't matter as long we continue to listen to the voice of truth which is Christ because as long as we have that in our hearts, what more can we ask for than to know how God continues to love beyond our broken pieces, imperfections, and continues to love us no matter what despite when we at times all go through some way or another of feeling down, or even hard on ourselves. The enemy may try to knock us down, but God picks us right back up and loves us more than anything and because of that just like in the other Matthew West song I shared, if it's true that God uses broken things, than here I am Lord I'm all yours. Let this be a reflection of how God is using us this week, so that we can be a light to others in need. Let this be a reminder to us this week so that we can be the light to others who don't God but want to know who He is because we need to be the light but be the change in how we can not lean on our own understanding but on the promises of God's Love and Goodness because God is Love.

These are the last three things I would like to end on tonight cause I feel this is important to share.

The first is a song by Stars Go Dim and the song I would like to share is called You Are Loved.

The lyrics say this: We hide pain in the weirdest places, Broken souls with smiling faces, Fighting for surrender, For now and the after, yeah, Just look around and you'll see that people, Are scared to say how they really feel, Oh, we all need a little honesty, You are loved, If your heart's in a thousand pieces

If you're lost and you're far from reason, Just look up; know you are loved, Just look up; and know you are loved, When it feels like something's missing, If it hurts but you can't find healing, Just look up, know you are loved, Just look up, know you are loved.

The second is another song called Gracefully Broken by Matt Redman where the lyrics of it say: Take all I have in these hands And multiply, God, all that I am And find my heart on the altar again

Set me on fire, set me on fire, Oh, take all I have in these hands, And multiply, God, all that I am, And find my heart on the altar again, Set me on fire, set me on fire, Here I am, God, Arms wide open, Pouring out my life, Gracefully broken, My heart stands in awe of Your name, Your mighty love stands strong to the end, You will fulfill Your purpose for me, You won't forsake me, You will be with me, Here I am, God, Arms wide open, Pouring out my life, Gracefully broken, Pouring out my life again

Here I am, God, Arms wide open, Pouring out my life, Gracefully broken, Oh, gracefully.

The las one I want to share is a song by Daniel Doss called Stained Glass Windows. The lyrics say: Last week I walked on water, Today I'm sinking low, Can your hand reach down to me and pull me up once more, The dreams I had are shattered, scattered on the floor, The last time you picked up the pieces helped me dream some more, Cause were making stained glass windows, Every piece a different shade

Broken and then put together like a big mistake, But when the light shines through the colors form a tapestry, A hundred different images of how you keep loving me. Each moment you are with me, Each word I hear you say, Help me understand and trust in your higher ways, The road that goes through valleys help me cling to you, And when we find a mountain top we'll dance the whole day through

Cause were making stained glass windows, Every piece a different shade, Broken and then put together like a big mistake, But when the light shines through the colors form a tapestry, A hundred different images of how you keep loving me, I don't know why, I don't know why, You keep loving me. Yeah, yeah, Broken and then put together, Were making stained glass windows, Every piece a different shade, Broken and then put together like a big mistake, Oh and when the light shines through the colors form a tapestry, A hundred different images of how, And when the light shines through the colors form a tapestry, A hundred different images of how you keep loving me.

Let all three of these songs be a reminder this week that beyond us feeling broken at times God is using us to form that tapestry to show us how He keeps loving us daily as Beloved Children of Him.