Beauty Beyond the Broken

Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” Luke 23:34

God, the Creator of the Universe, sent His son in the form of a baby through a virgin birth. He watched His son’s life, and He watched His death. God put His plan into place and watched it all unfold. He watched as His son took on the sins of the world. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the World that He gave His only son that whoever believes in Him will not parish but have everlasting life.”

Could you imagine watching your child suffer the way God watched Jesus?

Jesus was broken. He went through so much suffering. He was hurt by so many that some of His last words before His death, burial and resurrection, were of forgiveness. The completion of what Jesus came to earth to accomplish included forgiveness. Jesus had to forgive and He asked His Father, God, to do the same.

There’s nothing more beautiful than the brokenness of a savior who gave up everything to give me everlasting life.  There’s nothing more beautiful than the brokenness of my savior who showed me what it’s like to be completely broken and still overcome. There’s nothing more beautiful than my Savior who is willing to forgive and ask His father to forgive so He could be an over comer.

There’s beauty beyond the broken. Jesus is the prime example. He was broken, yet because He overcame, we can overcome. It’s important to recognize Jesus didn’t stay broken and we don’t have to stay broken, either. We don’t have to live in our past situation. We don’t have to stay hurt. We don’t have to live with everything rejection brings.

We can’t experience fullness of joy if we aren’t walking in love which includes exercising forgiveness.

Jesus was denied by Peter, one of the few closest to Him, yet instead of avoiding Him after His resurrection, He sought Him out. The angels even instructed the Mary’s to “get the disciples and Peter.” They mentioned him by name. Jesus walking in love and living in forgiveness completely changed the outcome of the rest of Peter’s life.

We’ll never find beauty if we keep living in the broken. Maybe now is the time to get beyond the broken. Maybe living the love walk is part of the process of letting go of the broken pieces. Maybe the ultimate demonstration of our love walk is unconditional forgiveness.

We can’t experience fullness of joy if we aren’t walking in love and exercising forgiveness. There’s beauty for you just beyond the broken. Maybe today you get to your beauty with your final act of forgiveness, the key to freedom.

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