Ps 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness {and} death, O God, the God of my salvation, {and} my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness (Your rightness and Your justice).
Ps 51:15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
Ps 51:16 For You delight not in sacrifice, or else would I give it; You find no pleasure in burnt offering.
Ps 51:17 My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.
Ps 51:18 Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
The dictionary says that to "be" broken is to be: "Subdued or brought low in condition or status" For me to have a real "break through" in life is to come to the realization of things being the opposite with God as they are here on earth. To bow down ones life is to be lifted up. To die to self is to be raised by Christ. To receive is to give. To pray for your enemy results in you being blessed. To be proud and to set yourself above others is to know God, "a far" off. Once in 1982 I was running on the beach and telling God how frustrated I was and so worried about tomorrow's financial needs. I got upset and slowed down and started to cry but kept going and did not realize it but I ran out of beach and was down at a point of land where I could go no further. I stopped and started to break inside and in a loud voice I cried out to God and said: "I can't go any further".... and very softly I heard a whisper saying: "Good, child, now I can work." How many of us need to be broken before we can be restored? How many of us have unseen pride keeping us from the liberty of resting in God for our peace here on earth. Imagine Jesus standing quietly before those who were mocking Him and remember....To be broken down, to be contrite in heart before God is exactly "how" He wants us to be.
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