Broken for a Purpose

We have all experienced it. YouTube Whiplash. You know, when you are watching one video and it somehow jumps to a completely different subject. When viewing a video on poverty, YouTube can provide you with a lot of things. Yet for everything it can provide, it cannot provide the feel of the air, the smell of the landfills, or the hopelessness in the people's faces. But the truth is, we are all broken. When Matthew 3:5 says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven," it is talking about all of us. And in Luke 7, when the prostitute washes Jesus feet, we are more like the rich man who owns the house. We cannot see the beauty right in front of us. The end of us comes when we realize that all of us are broken. In order to help others, we need to remember that we must be fixed first by God ourselves.