Broken People

So the other day I had an interesting conversation with whom I will not divualge at this time, but I was asked a question that at the time I honestly couldn't answer.

That question was simply, why am I broken? What possible reason could God have for making me this way, or at the very least allowing me to be this way. This perticular individual deals with some chemical imbalance issues which effects their behavior at times. I've spent some thime really thinking about that time and it really has just come to me now, so I stopped literly in the middle of cleaning my kitchen to write this so I didn't forget.

A song came on the radio and it hit me like a ton of bricks, like God was saying here is your answer. The lyric was God uses broken people, and all of the sudden I was like exactily, how much simpliar could it have been. I realize that the idea of such a thing might not make a lot of sense to some, but look at it like this. If a person who is by all society's standards well developed and acomplished at speaking, and other similiar activities, in addition to not seeming to have any real faults, at least not to the public eye, happens to do or share something profound we often atribute it to that person. If we are always good, and strong, and never falling, or failing, then how is God supposed to shin through that? How is God supposed to really show his wonder and glory if we are always looking at the amazing atributes of the person? On the other hand if a person is what we would consider broken, and imperfect, or weak and failing unable to stand on their own. Then there is all the opertunity in the world for God to show off through that person like no other. When a person is seemingly broken and not full of their own arrogance, there is plenty of room for God to work and really shine through you. So next time you look at yourself in the mirror and wonder why God has allowed you to be like this, remember that those are the people throughout all of history that God used to do the most glorious things through. Next time look at yourself in the mirror and ask God how can my brokenness serve you, here I am Lord, send me! Actually open yourself up to the relationship He so despretely wants to have with you, and see what God can do through you and with you!