How is your posture?
Posture affects everything from a healthy back to a good golf game. For instance; a church that has wet eyes, bent knees, humbled hearts and high praise is typically in good health. In John 20:24 Jesus talks of a grain of wheat that is only as good as it's plant ability. In other words; for wheat to produce, it must posture itself to die. Being postured correctly is so vital to producing fruit in The Kingdom.
With this grain of wheat in mind I'm referring to brokenness as a correct posture -
· Brokenness is involved in the process of surrendering to Christ.
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
John 12:25
· Brokenness is the difference between being alone and creating a mighty force.
"Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground, and die, it abideth alone"
Generally speaking, there is no comparison to be made between the value of a diamond and that of a grain of corn, yet all depends on the disposition you make of the corn. Put both of them away, and at the end of a hundred years the grain of corn will still have no money value, while the diamond's value, running up into the hundreds of dollars, will be undiminished. At the end of a thousand years the same thing will be true. But suppose, instead, we bury the grain in the warm, moist earth, and year after year throughout the centuries let it go on producing and reproducing. In that time it will have produced a store that the whole earth could hardly contain. Its production represents a money value that makes the diamond's price not more than an atom in comparison. To have saved the grain of corn would have been to lose all it was capable of producing.
"We need to remember that we cannot train ourselves to be Christians; we cannot discipline ourselves to be saints; we cannot bend ourselves to the will of God: we have to be broken to the will of God." Oswald Chambers
· Brokenness produces fruit