WE ARE BROKEN... written by Aimee Taylor Since Adam and Eve chose to disobey God way back in the Garden and eat the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil … we have sought to do things in our own way and on our own terms. We want to control our lives. We want ownership. We want to be our own god. We keep thinking that living outside of God’s love and boundary lines is what will bring us contentment and happiness. But it never does. The whole Old Testament illustrates this for us time and time again. Just scratch the surface of the book of Genesis and by chapter 4, the first murder has taken place, and by chapter 6, God is so grieved by humans that he obliterates all but a small remnant! We can read all their unending mistakes thinking that God’s people are fools and distance ourselves from what seems like their complete and utter lack of faithfulness… but the problem is that we are no different than they are. When we decided to cast off our Creator, we thought we were choosing liberty, but that is not what we got. Romans 1:21-23 says that when we chose not to honor God and His ways our minds become ‘darkened and confused’ and that leads us down some very dark paths of idolatry and sin. What we thought was a choice of freedom and autonomy really brought us bondage. Even many of us who claim to know Christ still fall prey to these same chains. Many are having sex outside of the confines of marriage, running our businesses as if God cannot see, and chasing after the next comfort or distraction thinking that our idols are going to give us the rest we are truly seeking. Sprinkle in a platitude and we’ve got the perfect formula to tell ourselves that everything we are doing is 34
BROKEN & BELOVED “For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools” Romans 1:21-22 (NIV)
