The Breaker

 

Micah, chapter 2. The idea is of Jesus as The Breaker.

The text to focus in on today is 12 and 13, “Someday, O Israel, I will gather you; I will gather the remnant who are left. I will bring you together again like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture. Yes, your land will again be filled with noisy crowds! Your leader will break out, and lead you out of exile, out through the gates of the enemy cities, back to your own land. Your king will lead you, the Lord Himself will guide you.”

Wow.

Such hope for us in 2020 even!

He will gather the remnant left.
He will gather His sheep.
Our land will be restored once again.
Our leader will break us out of captivity.
Our breaker will remove us from enemy territory.
Our God will lead us.
Our God will guide us.

Wow… such hope to claim in this text!

And then I read this in my commentary the other morning…
“Many of us know not the bondage in which we are held. We are chained by sin, chained to the habit of evil with a strength of which you never know till you try to shake it off. Our condition is not only one of bondage to evil, but also one of separation from God.”

The trouble is that most of us have no idea the literal trouble we are in until it separates us from God. Then we feel it.

But we have a Breaker who fights for us… to gather us, restore us, and break us free from chains of evil.

God is a Chain Breaker (Is 61:1-2, Acts 5, 12, 15.)
He is our breaker of chains.
And for those who are called of Christ… those who are His followers… His disciples… His sheep… He has broken the chains of our captivity… so that we no longer have to live in defeat, despair, discouragement, and depression.
We no longer have to live in the habit of evil.

My commentary goes on to say this, “It is not possible that we should be holding of the impotent chains that He has broken.”

And yet - even knowing He is the chain breaker… how many of us live still clinging to things we ought to have learned by now to let go of?

Because after all … He died for that!
 

And I have been thinking this over and over again in the last several months of my life. What am I still unnecessarily holding on to that I need to let go of - because Jesus died for it! He died that I wouldn’t have to carry it around any longer.

You can make your own list!
Things might include:

• depression
• sickness
• fear
• anxiety
• dread 
• regret
• comparison

And these are just to name a few.

I invite you to ask yourself the question too… What are the things I must let go of - because Jesus BOUGHT and PAID FOR THEM IN FULL at the cross!?

He is our Breaker.
And He has broken us free from the weight of all that separates us from Him.

Today… it’s time to live differently!