Brokenness-Mosaic Art

 Bear it and bear it all...don't hide behind the leaves. When you can take someone else's broken heart and attach it to your brokenness, this is pure compassion.

Some of us, when we break things we leave in a hurry and hide. We can't bear to face the shame of the brokenness of what happened. When things get tough or too hard we just up and leave because it's easier to do rather than face that fact that we truly just broke something or did something wrong.

Adam and Eve did this in the garden when they broke fellowship with God. They hid behind the leaves and even covered themselves in a leaf to hide the shame of the nakedness of brokenness.

I myself have also hid behind the leaves. I leave every time it get's tough. I can't bear to face things until they come back around a year later to have to face it yet again. To many times gone by now and it's time to stop hiding behind the "Leaves", bear it, and bear it all now. God in His long suffering and patients allows us to leave but for our better good He allows us to face it eventually. The learning is not to run instantly from brokenness.

I have a friend that can take broken and shattered pieces of things that use to be whole and make a beautiful mosaic out of it, and it becomes something more beautiful than before. I can not do a mosaic yet, but I hope in time one day soon I will. I have yet to learn this art. Even though I am an artist, I have not done a mosaic. I can only learn to do a mosaic by being around someone who knows how to do this type of art.

As a painter I can cover things up like painting mistakes with more paint and make it look great. But what about shattered things that were once whole...How does one make that art, let alone something more precious than before?

In this same manner, if I run away or throw away brokenness, I can't learn this mosaic art. How does one take what was whole and bring it all together; every shattered piece into a beautiful mosaic. Well someone who's been broken and stayed with it, can fix it. The problem is, some of us leave when it get's rough because we have not yet understood our own brokenness let alone someone else's!

 When we ourselves become broken, who can gather all our brokenness and bring them together and make something more beautiful than before let alone someone else's...Jesus can.

Philippians 3:10 ..that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings,..

After the breaking of His body being whole, He resurrected it and gave portions to us and together the body of Christ is a mosaic in each and everyone of us. And in our brokenness we should commune and fellowship in it's purest form by bearing one another's burden.

To fellowship with him in His sufferings, is when you can find him in the middle of a storm and have those two broken hearts commune. The ring of communion is now more intimate than before from the brokenness the storm is causing inside of us. Each storm, trial, and battle, is a perfect opportunity to fellowship with Him and one another in suffering because it's the ring of communion.

That brokenness extracts the pureness of who He is and who we are; Fellowship in His sufferings and we reign with him in overcoming the storm. When we can own up to the brokenness and have love pour out, growth occurs being fruitful.

We have to face it though and not run away. But when we put blame we build a wall of bitterness and fellowship is lost. True forgiveness always breaks the wall and when it's broken, love pours out and communion can begin again.

Paul and his company were going to the other side and the boat they were all in to get to the other side broke up. Some had to cling on those broken pieces just to make it to the other side. But they made it because the broken pieces were not discarded but they hung onto them.

Acts 27:44 And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.

In the storm, may we find Him and fellowship in the suffering; every broken piece is communion with Him for He Himself was broken for us. As He was broken for us, He makes us whole again even better than we were before. He is the Master of Mosaic's. He doesn't discard things that are broken but He grabs them in His brokenness and makes them more precious than before. 

As for me, it's so easy to throw things away and start over fresh. However, the lesson for the season is to stop throwing things away and learn to take all those broken pieces and make a mosaic. I admire my friend that can take all those shattered and broken pieces and make something more precious than before. 

Not everyone can do mosaic art. This art takes pure compassion for broken things and knows how to handle and place them to restoration in another level. When you can take someone else's broken heart and attach it to your brokenness, that is pure compassion.

So it's time to stop hiding behind the leaves (running away) and face the brokenness head on in order to fellowship in His suffering so we may reign with Him. Every storm is an opportunity to grow deeper in brokenness to have His Spirit flow out of us in it's purest form. This is truly the Fellowship of His suffering and communion. Bear one another's burdens no matter how tough, we'll all make it to the other side safe.