The Need and Impact of Brokenness of Heart - Psalm 34:18
Jul 1, 2023 | by Teacher Michael Carter
The Need and Impact of Brokenness of Heart - Psalm 34:18
This text informs us that God’s influence is present with the brokenhearted
Brokenness of heart is a contrite pliable heart that responds to those matters of the heart that convict and touch our hearts. It moves us towards God’s empathy, mercy and heart. Thankfully, God is present to extend His grace, influence and perfect salvation. There is an impact and a need to experiences brokenness of heart.
Accept we experience brokenness; we will remain the same and stay in our sins.
As believers, brokenness of heart should be our response to the convictions of the Holy Spirit in regards to our sins. This should lead us to Godly sorrow, repentance and change, looking to God for His forgiveness. Without brokenness of heart, we will remain the same and be enslaved by sin, walking in worldliness and our flesh. And ultimately, subjecting ourselves to God’s judgment
There is a need and a profound impact on our lives when we experiences brokenness of heart.
Brokenness of heart impacts our salvation, personal growth and our relationship with God. It impacts how we behave, treat others, respond to the Holy Spirit, and live out our faith. It assists us in walking in holiness and living a life pleasing unto God. Brokenness brings us closer to God and exposes us to His influence and salvation for our lives. And it causes us to grow in Christ likeness.
Brokenness of heart should be our responses to the Spirit’s convictions. John 16:8
If you are saved and reborn of the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit lives in you. The word reprove used in this text means to be convicted This type of conviction of sin should lead us to a sorrowful brokenness of heart because it’s wrong and it disrupts our relationship with God. The Holy Spirit warns and convicts us of sin because of our relationship with God and for our own good. The HolySpirit is present to convict, lead, reveal truth and empowers us.
However, we are living in a culture and system designed to cause our hearts to be callus to sin. Sin is being blasted from every media outlet daily. It’s woven into the fabric of our culture entertainment, laws and society. The intent of the enemy is for people to accept and normalize sin. The more we accept and normalize sin, the more we become callus to it and the Holy Spirits conviction of sin becomes dull, and easier to ignore.
This is a very dangerous place to be because it leads to justifying and living in your sin. This is not the place God wants us to be in.
Normalizing sin and not responding to the Holy Spirit can eventually cause a hardened heart. Ephesians 4:18. Hardness of heart is a heart that prevents God’s word or the convictions of His Spirit to penetrate it. So, instead of flowing in brokenness of heart, repenting and changing, you resist, stay the same and remain in your sin. A Hardened heart impacts your growth and places you outside of God’s will, compromising your relationship with Him, exposing you to His judgments.
That’s why excepting and normalizing sin is so dangerous. It impacts your relationship with God and your salvation.
Don’t follow the world and be deceived by normalizing sin and not respond to the Holy Spirit. Normalizing sin will deceive you into thinking that’s its ok to live in sin. This causes your heart to become desensitized, callus and hardened to sin and the convictions of the Holy Spirit. When you’re convicted, don’t harden your heart, have a pliable heart; go to God for forgiveness in brokenness of heart.
Brokenness of heart is a pliable heart that responds to the convictions of the Holy Spirit. A pliable heart is a fallow heart that enables the word of God and the convictions of the Holy Spirit to penetrate it. We are to break up the fallow ground of our hearts that would cause it to be callus or hardened. We do this by rejecting sin, jealousy, unforgiveness, unbelief, our egos, and stubbornness. Our hearts are the place of a inward conviction that provokes a outwardly change. Jeremiah 4:3-4
Circumcision was a sign of covenant and an outward statement of putting away sin.
There is no need to physically cut ourselves ourselves. Circumcision take splace in the heart now. However, we have respond to the Holy Spirit's convictions, repent and allow God’s Spirit to cut away sin from the heart. Romans 2:29 Circumcision of heart is us responding to the conviction of the Holy Spirit in brokenness, repenting, putting that sin away and looking to God for His forgiveness.
Brokenness comes through recognizing sin, repenting and turning to God for forgiveness. Acts 3:19 This refreshing is God forgiving your sins and restoring the joy of your salvation and your relationship with Him. This is the power and the impact of brokenness of heart.
Consider David’s sin of murder and adultery. When the prophet confronted Him, his response was a broken heart. It led him to repent of his sins and turn to God. However, it was a process. David was still the king. So the prophet had to be respectful, yet bring correction to the man who was in authority, King David. The prophet masterfully presented in a parable. So the king would catch it without his ego being provoked.
In all of his shortcomings, David always maintained a pliable heart towards God.
Once he aligned his understanding of the unjustness perpetrator and declared his opinion, it was time to move him into seeing himself as the perpetrator; the prophet declared, thou art the one. David was convicted of his sin. He was moved with sorrow because of his sin. Psalm 51 reflects this.
Psalm 51:10-12 This moved him to acknowledge his sin and repent. His brokenness moved him to get it right with God. Psalm 51:1-2 | Psalm 51:16-17. David had a broken contrite heart and responded to the conviction of the Holy Spirit. It moved him to repent of his sins. God forgave him and restored their relationship.
Where are you in regards to your heart towards sin and your relationship with God?
Does the world’s sin and yours bother you; or are you callus to it and the Holy Spirit’s convictions? Breakup that fallow ground of your heart and asks God to search your heart and respond to Him. Psalm 139:23-24 23. As the Holy Spirit searches and convicts your heart, respond in brokenness of heart, looking to God for His forgiveness.
This is the power, influence and Impact of brokenness of heart. The more we become pliable and responsive to the Holy Spirit the more we will experience brokenness of heart. The more we experience brokenness of heart, the closer we grow with God and experience His influence and salvation. Brokenness of heart keeps us in right fellowship with God and causes us to become Christ-like. This is the impact of brokenness of heart.
What is God dealing with you about in your heart concerning sin?
He desires to move you to a higher place of standards in your life, faith and relationship with Him. It all starts with you responding to your heart and making a quality choice to grow your relationship with God.
Brokenness brings us closer to God and exposes us to His influence and salvation for our lives. And it causes us to grow in Christ likeness. This is the impact and the power of respondidng to God in brockeness.