When you think of crumbling you may think of cookies or cake. Also, you could think of mountains, buildings or even an avalanche.  For me its the movie “Bruce Almighty” when he has the tag line ” And that’s the way the cookie crumbles!” This is how my heart is starting to feel in a good way and with my thoughts.  I can feel the old crumbling off of me.  Moment by moment my heart softens.  This crumbling is a process and as each piece falls I can stop to take a look at it from God’s eyes.  What do I mean?  Well, I have prayed many times for God to open the eyes of my heart and in that answered prayer I can see my broken pieces.  I have been able to observe my thinking and feelings from a different perspective.  As Jesus has helped me take these thoughts captive, he dissects each one and shows me how I have been fooled.  Our over confidence and arrogance does not come from Christ.  It is our humility that draws His omnipotent power into us.

Crumbling is a humbling action because regardless of how put together something or someone may seem to be there is always a crumbling point.  However, when God is in our life he will not allow us to just be destroyed.  His love for us is overflowing.  He works on every piece before it crumbles, keeping the good and rejecting the bad.  Once we have surrendered to Jesus, he then takes all the good pieces and puts them to His all eternal flame.  That fire brings all the good of you together and then we are placed back into the Potter’s Hand, Christ.  We still must remember to surrender and take up our cross daily.  When we remain in the Potter’s hands it is so much easier for Jesus to wipe away and smooth out the cracks that still may try and break us.  We must be patient with the crumbling and know that God’s timing is perfect.  The crumbling in my life has taught me to realize any thought I have outside of Jesus is something I should not pursue and give to him.  I slow down now when one of “those” thoughts come, YOU KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT, and realize they have swayed my actions for a long, long, long time.  Now as Jesus molds me and I am safe in his hands, I can feel my heart soften and my brain circuits being untangled.  Finally, God’s Love is FOR ME! ( And that’s the way the cookie crumbles!) Amen

One Love, One King, All Christ!