Brokenness Opens Realms Of Fear
The greatest desire of the Father is that you can be one, together in Him. In the last great prayer of Jesus in John 17:21-23, we see that the very desire of Jesus is that you could experience the same love of the Father as Jesus Himself does.
Even though this is the great prayer of Jesus, one that He ultimately died for, we also know that many people, even sons and daughters of God, do not live in the fullness of this place of love. Some intellectually ascend to assume this may be true, but the genuine experience is allusive to them.
There are many reasons for this, and one is that of brokenness in your life. Brokenness is far reaching and emerges for a multiplicity of reasons. No one will escape brokenness over the course of their lifetime. And the more sensitive you are, often the impact and consequences of brokenness run much deeper.
One of the insidious consequences of brokenness can be a sense of distortion in how you interpret your own life. It will extend to your relationship with people, and how you view life in general. It can even impact how you may regard God himself, in his diverse nature and expressions toward you.
The very image of brokenness itself is one where things are not properly connected or aligned. In the misalignment, or in the magnitude of the devastation, a separation emerges. And in this separation, in this vacuum, another dimension opens. This dimension is called fear. Fear, in part, is a symptomatic expression of separation. In a state of separation, you enter into diverse realms, where you are unable to interpret things as they truly are. These are intangible, but defining reinterpretations of what you now perceive as reality from a place of separation.
In the realm of fear, what you interpret from circumstances, people, and even your view of the very nature of God himself is altered. It is altered through the lens of fear. Through the realm of fear that you find yourself in, through the separation that is the byproduct of brokenness.
Every person hopes for a good life. Jesus died on your behalf to restore you to the love of the Father, so that you can daily be healed of brokenness and it’s consequences of separation resulting in fear, pain and suffering. This is a great desire of Jesus for you personally.
And this healing begins with your heart. The healing of your heart in the love of the Father. The same love that the Father loves Jesus with, is your inheritance as well. The Bible says that perfect love casts out all fear. In the place of perfect love, separation is displaced. You are one with the Father, your Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, as you abide in this love. There your heart is healed, restored. There you begin to interpret life through an entirely different dimension, through the love of God.
Every day you need this great love. This love is not a place of intellectual ascent. This great love is like the air you breathe. This love is light and shines in the darkness. Then you shine in the very life you receive through this great love.
Loved people truly love.
“That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.” John 17:21-23