Who Are You?

When people think of God, church, religion or things of that nature they usually think of a code of ethics, rules or rituals. When asked what is important to God they will quote several "thou shalts or thou shalt nots". They may mention baptism, membership or giving.

Many of the things they might mention are well and good in their place, but they are not the most important things to God. Who you are is the most important thing.

most important to God are a broken spirit and a contrite heart, which indicates who you are. (Col 2:23) Who you are inside will dictate what you do or it should. This heart condition is what God knows about you. Broken and contrite speak to humility and repentance. It is that type of heart and spirit that will seek God and God will respond by making Himself known and in the process knowing intimately that person.

There is no sacrifice I can make that can atone for my sin, only the sacrifice of Jesus can do that. So God cannot take any satisfaction in any of my sacrifices, no matter how good they may seem to be.
A broken spirit, or a broken and contrite heart is a heart breaking with itself and sin, pliable under God's Word and patient under God's rod of correction.

You see the heart is where the truth of the man lies. It is the core of his being and he may lie to others and even to himself out loud so to speak but his true character will eventually come out.

The breaking of our hearts is a sacrifice of acknowledgment, recognizing all Jesus did for us on the cross. This is far better than killing an animal and God is more satisfied with this type of sacrifice than any other.

The sacrifice was bound, was bled, was burnt; so the penitent heart is bound by convictions, bleeds in contrition, and then burns in holy zeal against sin and for God.


God wants us broken. Not because He’s cruel, not because He enjoys seeing us in pain, which often accompanies brokenness. He wants us broken, because unless we’re broken, He cannot penetrate our hardness to speak to us, He cannot put us back together again.

Now, when I say cannot, I don’t mean He is unable. But I mean that because He has given us a free will, a free will to accept His Lordship in our lives, a free will to submit to His will, of our own free choice, in that sense, unless we’re broken, He can’t build what He wants to make of us.

So the most important thing you can do is to guard your heart.

What you see, hear and believe will take control of your heart/mind. Your life will be governed by what is in control. You need to set a guard over what is deposited in your mind. All that hooha about keeping an open mind can destroy your life. Most of the time if you are with someone that is telling you to keep an open mind it is because they are fixin’ to dump a pile of garbage in it and they want your life to stink like theirs and attract the same flies they do. Be careful of what you let in for it will come out and you may not like the fruit it brings forth.

Certain notes taken from Matthew Henry, and Ron Schultz

Psalm 51:16