Usually when something is broken, its value declines or disappears altogether. Broken dishes, broken bottles, broken mirrors are generally scrapped.
Even a crack in furniture or a year in cloth greatly reduces its resale value.
But, it isn't the way in the spiritual realm. God puts a premium on broken things especially, on broken people. That is why we read such verses as:
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18.
The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit and a contrite heart, O God thou wilt not despise. Psalm 51:17.
God knows how to resist the proud and haughty but, He cannot resist a person who is humble and contrite.
God opposes the proud but, gives grace to the humble(James 4:6). There is something in our brokenness that appears to his compassion and power.
And so part of His wonderful purpose for our lives is that we should be broken in heart, broken in spirit, broken even in body (2nd corinthians 4:6-18).
Let us humble yourselves before God.
