Brokenness

My Small Group is the best. I can't tell you how much my Small Group encourages me and I hope that I am doing the same thing for them. We were talking about brokenness and how God needs for us to be completely broken before Him before He can do a great work in us. It seems that God keeps on bringing us to a point where we need to give up parts of our lives to Him in order for Him to work...and just reading and talking about it are not enough. How do we achieve brokenness? How do we come to the point of being completely broken before Him? Is it a work of the Lord that brings us to brokenness? Do we pray to the Lord that God will break us and wait for the inevitable to happen?

I know right now, I'm praying for brokenness and I believe that God is doing that. Part of me doesn't want it, and that part of me is my soul that is scared that it will be obliterated in the process and become no more. A self preservation instinct. But deep down inside, I want this. It's painful and difficult, but keeping my eyes on the prize of Jesus Christ makes it worth it.