Broken yet Chosen

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Broken yet Chosen

Have you ever felt like you were good enough? Like a failure? Like maybe you don’t live up to everyone else expectation? like maybe you have just been passed over?
Or maybe things will just keep on going this same way and nothing will ever change?
Often times we judge by the outside. We judge our lives based on the outside voices such as friends and families. Maybe we live a certain way because of the way we are treated by others.
we live a certain way because we want to fit in, or it is the only way we know how to live.
We have gotten so use to the chaos it has become normal. Or maybe we want a place, a relationship, we so want to be loved, we want value.
so we do things, we cross lines in order to feel some sort of value. Or we look for something to help us cope with some sort of feeling, pain or even anger.
For some our families make constant pressure of not letting them down. Yet for others it is being abandoned, maybe through divorce or just leaving, or maybe it is just not caring.
maybe its media. We don’t look a certain way so we need to change that in order to be desirable, or at least have the appearance of having it all together
Studies prove that media can have a negative impact on self image. TV, movies, magazines and the internet all bombard teens with images and pressures about what their bodies should look like. The problem is, their version isn’t realistic. These images are air-brushed versions of models who weigh 23% less than the average woman. Nevertheless, millions of teens believe the lies and resort to unhealthy measures to try to fit themselves into that impossible mold.
But this is goal of what we should be like, so we do this in multiple ways
we don’t eat, we exercise,. we make ourselves do other things that we don’t want anyone else to know about
All of these voices speak, and they lead do roads of feeling like we need something more, like we aren’t good enough.
roads of depression, of loneliness , of hurting, of constantly looking for life and only finding hurt after hurt
Then there is a story in John 4, of Jesus meeting someone just like this
John 4:1–18 ESV
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
So Jesus stands before this Samaritan women. In verse 4 “He had to travel through Samaria”, it shows that God meets us where we are at.

In Jesus’ day the Jews, because of their hatred for the Samaritans, normally took the eastern route in order to avoid Samaria

Jesus being a good Jew wouldn’t want to have contact with a Samaritan, especially a women

Jesus chose the route through Samaria in order to reach the despised people of that region. As the Savior of the world He seeks out and saves the despised and outcasts (cf. Luke 19:10).

Yet Here He had to go there in the sixth hour- noon. Jesus meant Her at the hottest time of the day when she was getting water by herself
You see she was alone because she was judged. she wasn’t good enough according to the rest of the town, you don’t carry around at the hottest time of the day ,by your self.
everyone once else had labeled her, judge by others, yet Jesus God is the flesh is talking to her.
So Jesus says “go get your husband”, her response “I don’t have one”He comes back with “you have five guys you are with and the one you are with now isn’t your husband”- Jesus knew the brokenness of this lady.
what happens next it the most amazing thing and it shows God heart.
Instead of saying “you fool,” “your used up” “your no good!” or calling her names that we give to people who have been around the block a couple of times
He says “If you knew the Gift of God that stood before you you would ask and I would give.” With God it isn’t about who you are now it is about the Gift that is offered, which is christ crucified.
God sees where you are at. you aren’t hidden from him, and maybe even in this very moment He is telling you “if you knew the gift of God you would ask and I would give.”
Luke 15- is full of stories of things getting lost and broken and someone seeking them
Luke 15:11–24 ESV
And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything. “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.” ’ And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.
It says that while the son was still far out, God meets us where we are at. It doesn’t say he was clean , no but while he was still far off, still covered in the mess of the life he lived
God ran out to meet him where he was just as he was.
Romans 5:8 ESV
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
The women at the well Jesus told her everything wrong she had done and was still doing but yet He still offered her the free gift of eternal life
Matthew 9:12–13 ESV
But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Are you lost? Are you feeling all the weight of the junk that you have been carry?
God can meet you right were you are at, just as you are, you don’t need to be perfect because you could never be!
Luke 19:10 ESV
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Luke 18:9–14 ESV
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
God came to seek and save that which was lost! and the story is not over
John 4:39 ESV
Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”
After God had spoken into her life she went out, she shared here story! It is like she said “look at the brokenness that God has healed me from.”
“Look at the scars from the wounds that i have carried that He has healed.”
often times it is those darkest areas of our lives that God redeems and uses for His glory see God can take a broken Girl who struggled with many obstacles in life who felt depression, and many nights of dispair
and she can stand before you and say look what God has done!
she can stand before you and say “yes God can redeem that, the story is not over.”
And God can take a scare little girl with a broke past, with hurts and turn her into my beautiful who stands before you today and says “Look at where God has brought me!”
Your story isn’t done
Isaiah 61:1–4 ESV
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified. They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.
God wants to turn your former devastations into monuments that you show others what God has done in your life.
This is the story of Lexi. This is my Story, and this is the story of everyone who receives that gift of God.
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